Alert archive / Oklahoma

Weather alerts in Cleveland County, Oklahoma

5,653 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cleveland County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
5,653
Warnings
1,904
Watches
856
Advisories
1,191
Busiest year
2025353 alerts
Average year
138over 41 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 76% of tornado reports in Cleveland County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 60% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%0
20094250%2100%20 min
20105340%475%17 min
20114250%0
2012110%2100%3 min
201313562%3100%9 min
201514471%580%22 min
20163167%1100%35 min
2017110%0
20184250%4100%4 min
20194175%30%
202010100%0
202130100%10%
20226267%0
2023241346%5100%16 min
202412467%250%11 min
20259278%10%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008553340%4892%21 min
2009392633%2588%16 min
2010241921%4466%22 min
2011321941%2976%20 min
2012332233%14100%39 min
2013493235%4783%30 min
2014201810%967%12 min
2015433226%3083%31 min
2016512257%2186%10 min
2017634135%3391%24 min
2018331845%7100%37 min
2019693352%4495%22 min
2020493039%7099%30 min
2021201050%2295%31 min
2022452251%2588%25 min
2023663842%5686%22 min
2024533043%3577%19 min
2025894451%5684%20 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%1100%31 min
20106350%1100%44 min
201110100%0
201210100%0
20138538%8100%116 min
2014220%0
2015181328%21100%223 min
20166433%2100%31 min
20175340%4100%26 min
2018161225%1292%40 min
201911736%2100%51 min
2020220%7100%26 min
20217529%888%27 min
20229456%5100%64 min
20236350%6100%58 min
202410640%20100%90 min
202520860%1250%152 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 12, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN51 min
Aug 24, 2:29 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOUN7 hr
Aug 23, 12:47 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningOUN31 hr
Aug 22, 6:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN53 min
Aug 22, 5:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN31 min
Aug 19, 12:28 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningOUN57 hr
Aug 18, 11:32 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningOUN32 hr
Aug 17, 11:48 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningOUN32 hr
Aug 16, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN45 min
Aug 7, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN22 min
Aug 7, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN47 min
Jul 31, 2:08 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningOUN19 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.