Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, May 1997
164 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 164
- Busiest day
- May 2, 199731 severe thunderstorm warnings
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The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon | 62 min |
| May 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 60 min |
| May 1, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Kiowa | 48 min |
| May 1, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 65 min |
| May 1, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 64 min |
| May 1, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 60 min |
| May 1, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 58 min |
| May 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 55 min |
| May 1, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 41 min |
| May 1, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Custer, Washita | 55 min |
| May 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 60 min |
| May 1, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Woodward | 55 min |
| May 1, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods | 55 min |
| May 1, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Custer | 40 min |
| May 1, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Washita | 40 min |
| May 1, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 61 min |
| May 1, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 35 min |
| May 1, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods | 64 min |
| May 1, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Woodward | 64 min |
| May 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher | 45 min |
| May 1, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 44 min |
| May 1, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher | 47 min |
| May 1, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey | 47 min |
| May 2, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Kingfisher | 42 min |
| May 2, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Noble, Payne | 42 min |
| May 2, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 51 min |
| May 2, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Payne | 65 min |
| May 2, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 65 min |
| May 2, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 65 min |
| May 2, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 53 min |
| May 2, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa | 44 min |
| May 2, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee, Wagoner | 44 min |
| May 2, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Muskogee | 30 min |
| May 2, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 39 min |
| May 2, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell | 49 min |
| May 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 45 min |
| May 5, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 51 min |
| May 6, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 62 min |
| May 6, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 57 min |
| May 6, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 67 min |
| May 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 45 min |
| May 7, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 41 min |
| May 7, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 45 min |
| May 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 60 min |
| May 7, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 53 min |
| May 7, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 46 min |
| May 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Washita | 43 min |
| May 7, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 42 min |
| May 7, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 52 min |
| May 7, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Custer, Kiowa, Washita | 62 min |
| May 7, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Dewey | 62 min |
| May 7, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 45 min |
| May 7, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Jackson | 39 min |
| May 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Grady | 50 min |
| May 7, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher | 62 min |
| May 7, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 48 min |
| May 7, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Logan, Oklahoma | 55 min |
| May 7, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 55 min |
| May 7, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 68 min |
| May 8, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 42 min |
| May 8, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 52 min |
| May 8, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Wagoner | 49 min |
| May 8, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 51 min |
| May 8, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon, Jackson | 39 min |
| May 8, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 45 min |
| May 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 53 min |
| May 8, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 47 min |
| May 8, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Love | 40 min |
| May 8, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton | 45 min |
| May 8, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan, Marshall | 43 min |
| May 8, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Oklahoma | 24 min |
| May 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 52 min |
| May 13, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Osage, Washington | 45 min |
| May 13, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Washington | 25 min |
| May 16, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 61 min |
| May 16, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 62 min |
| May 16, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 45 min |
| May 18, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 49 min |
| May 19, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 28 min |
| May 23, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 38 min |
| May 24, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 50 min |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 52 min |
| May 24, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 47 min |
| May 24, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 40 min |
| May 24, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Roger Mills | 49 min |
| May 24, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 46 min |
| May 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer | 45 min |
| May 24, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer | 45 min |
| May 24, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Washita | 51 min |
| May 25, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Grady | 46 min |
| May 25, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, Grady, McClain | 45 min |
| May 25, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes, Pontotoc | 35 min |
| May 25, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 45 min |
| May 25, 8:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 62 min |
| May 25, 8:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Pushmataha | 48 min |
| May 25, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 52 min |
| May 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche | 46 min |
| May 25, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Garvin, Stephens | 60 min |
| May 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 30 min |
| May 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | McClain, Pontotoc | 59 min |
| May 25, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady | 24 min |
| May 25, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin | 46 min |
| May 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 60 min |
| May 25, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter | 44 min |
| May 25, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 61 min |
| May 25, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 52 min |
| May 25, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 31 min |
| May 26, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 43 min |
| May 26, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa | 51 min |
| May 26, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 43 min |
| May 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Seminole | 50 min |
| May 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee, Tulsa | 40 min |
| May 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 51 min |
| May 26, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 42 min |
| May 26, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 55 min |
| May 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Washington | 52 min |
| May 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 52 min |
| May 26, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 56 min |
| May 26, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pontotoc | 42 min |
| May 26, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 51 min |
| May 26, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Johnston | 49 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 45 min |
| May 26, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 51 min |
| May 26, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Love, Marshall | 49 min |
| May 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 40 min |
| May 26, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 28 min |
| May 26, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Johnston | 41 min |
| May 26, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 55 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 66 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 66 min |
| May 26, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Coal, Hughes | 44 min |
| May 26, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 39 min |
| May 26, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Johnston | 41 min |
| May 26, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pushmataha | 49 min |
| May 26, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 29 min |
| May 26, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 53 min |
| May 26, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 59 min |
| May 26, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 52 min |
| May 27, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 59 min |
| May 27, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 59 min |
| May 27, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Choctaw | 30 min |
| May 27, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Choctaw | 30 min |
| May 27, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 63 min |
| May 28, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 60 min |
| May 29, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 56 min |
| May 29, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 65 min |
| May 29, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 65 min |
| May 29, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 41 min |
| May 29, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 36 min |
| May 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 44 min |
| May 29, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 50 min |
| May 29, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 29 min |
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 30 min |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 45 min |
| May 30, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 47 min |
| May 30, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 29 min |
| May 30, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 46 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ellis County10
- Custer County10
- Osage County10
- Roger Mills County8
- Texas County7
- Tulsa County7
- Beckham County6
- Blaine County6
- Pawnee County6
- Creek County6
- Washington County6
- Grady County6
- Tillman County6
- Nowata County6
- Beaver County5
- Washita County5
- Woodward County5
- Grant County5
- Dewey County5
- McClain County5
- Caddo County4
- Harper County4
- Woods County4
- Kingfisher County4
- Cherokee County4
- Jackson County4
- McCurtain County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Pushmataha County4
- Choctaw County4
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Kiowa County3
- Alfalfa County3
- Canadian County3
- Okmulgee County3
- Wagoner County3
- Craig County3
- Cimarron County3
- Cleveland County3
32 more counties
- Cotton County3
- Carter County3
- Bryan County3
- Garvin County3
- Coal County3
- Hughes County3
- Pittsburg County3
- Atoka County3
- Johnston County3
- Major County2
- Garfield County2
- Logan County2
- Payne County2
- Muskogee County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Rogers County2
- Adair County2
- Love County2
- Marshall County2
- Ottawa County2
- Okfuskee County2
- McIntosh County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Noble County1
- Haskell County1
- LeFlore County1
- Kay County1
- Latimer County1
- Comanche County1
- Stephens County1
- Seminole County1
- Delaware County1
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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.