Excessive Heat Watches in Oklahoma
28 excessive heat 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 excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 28
- Busiest year
- 20116 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 3over 10 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.
- Tulsa County21
- Pawnee County18
- Rogers County18
- Washington County18
- Creek County17
- Muskogee County17
- Nowata County17
- Okmulgee County17
- Wagoner County17
- Okfuskee County16
- Craig County15
- McIntosh County15
- Mayes County15
- Ottawa County14
- Pittsburg County14
- Cherokee County13
- Choctaw County13
- Latimer County13
- Pushmataha County13
- Haskell County12
- Delaware County11
- Adair County7
- Carter County4
- Jefferson County4
- Love County4
- Stephens County4
- Atoka County3
- Bryan County3
- Coal County3
- Garvin County3
- Hughes County3
- Johnston County3
- Marshall County3
- Murray County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Canadian County2
- Cleveland County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
- Garfield County2
32 more counties
- Grady County2
- Grant County2
- Kay County2
- Kingfisher County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McClain County2
- Noble County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Payne County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Seminole County2
- Tillman County2
- Alfalfa County1
- Beckham County1
- Blaine County1
- Caddo County1
- Custer County1
- Dewey County1
- Ellis County1
- Greer County1
- Harmon County1
- Harper County1
- Jackson County1
- Kiowa County1
- Major County1
- Roger Mills County1
- Washita County1
- Woods County1
- Woodward County1
- Beaver County1
- Texas County1
Nearby
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.