Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, August 1997
4 severe thunderstorm watches in August 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 20, 19972 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 30 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blaine County3
- Dewey County3
- Kingfisher County3
- Logan County3
- Pawnee County3
- Payne County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Beckham County2
- Caddo County2
- Canadian County2
- Cleveland County2
- Custer County2
- Ellis County2
- Garfield County2
- Grady County2
- Grant County2
- Harper County2
- Kay County2
- Lincoln County2
- Major County2
- Noble County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Washita County2
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Creek County2
- Hughes County2
- McIntosh County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Rogers County2
- Seminole County2
- Tulsa County2
- Adair County1
- Cherokee County1
- Craig County1
- Delaware County1
- Haskell County1
21 more counties
- Mayes County1
- Muskogee County1
- Nowata County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- Beaver County1
- Texas County1
- Comanche County1
- Garvin County1
- Greer County1
- Harmon County1
- Jackson County1
- Kiowa County1
- McClain County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Stephens County1
- Tillman 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.