Winter Storm Watches in Texas

316 winter storm watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Winter Storm Watches: 316
Busiest year: 200735 winter storm watches
Average year: 15over 21 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

214 more counties

The latest winter storm watches

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 11:33 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	CRP	Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Live Oak, McMullen and 2 more	13 hr
Jan 21, 1:18 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	HGX	Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 13 more	48 hr
Jan 21, 1:11 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	LCH	Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler	46 hr
Jan 21, 12:21 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	EWX	Bandera, Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Comal and 12 more	23 hr
Jan 21, 1:13 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Dawson and 18 more	36 hr
Jan 21, 1:06 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	LUB	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	35 hr
Jan 21, 12:54 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 18 more	35 hr
Jan 20, 9:51 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	39 hr
Jan 20, 2:01 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	FWD	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 40 more	47 hr
Jan 20, 1:24 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	SHV	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more	70 hr
Jan 20, 12:59 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more	33 hr

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.