Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 1997
11 severe thunderstorm watches 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 7, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cotton, Tillman | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Coal, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Harper, Texas | 6 hr |
| May 19, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Harper and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain | 5 hr |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Greer and 5 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greer County5
- Harper County5
- Beckham County4
- Cotton County4
- Ellis County4
- Harmon County4
- Jackson County4
- Tillman County4
- Beaver County4
- Caddo County3
- Comanche County3
- Custer County3
- Dewey County3
- Kiowa County3
- Roger Mills County3
- Washita County3
- Woods County3
- Woodward County3
- Texas County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Blaine County2
- Major County2
- Coal County2
- McIntosh County2
- Cimarron County2
- Canadian County1
- Adair County1
- Cherokee County1
- Delaware County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- Mayes County1
- Muskogee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Wagoner County1
- Carter County1
- Cleveland County1
- Garvin 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.