Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, April 1997
8 severe thunderstorm watches in April 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 22, 19973 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon | 5 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Johnston, McCurtain, Marshall and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Jefferson and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bryan County4
- Beckham County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Choctaw County3
- Johnston County3
- Marshall County3
- Jackson County3
- Atoka County2
- McCurtain County2
- Pushmataha County2
- Tillman County2
- Carter County2
- Coal County2
- Jefferson County2
- Love County2
- Murray County2
- Blaine County1
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Comanche County1
- Creek County1
- Custer County1
- Dewey County1
- Garfield County1
- Grady County1
- Hughes County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Major County1
- Noble County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Osage County1
- Pawnee County1
- Payne 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.