Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 1998
11 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 15, 19984 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 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 34 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, McIntosh and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 14, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 34 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Love, Marshall | 6 hr |
| May 15, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kay, Nowata, Osage, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 25, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee and 47 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Comanche County6
- Garvin County5
- Pittsburg County5
- Stephens County5
- Blaine County5
- Canadian County5
- Cleveland County5
- Custer County5
- Dewey County5
- Kingfisher County5
- Lincoln County5
- Logan County5
- Oklahoma County5
- Caddo County5
- Jackson County5
- Cotton County4
- Hughes County4
- Latimer County4
- LeFlore County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Ellis County4
- Garfield County4
- McIntosh County4
- Major County4
- Noble County4
- Pawnee County4
- Payne County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Roger Mills County4
- Kiowa County4
- Tillman County4
- Washita County4
- Grady County4
- McClain County4
- Murray County3
- Alfalfa County3
- Creek County3
- Grant County3
- Haskell County3
- Okfuskee County3
33 more counties
- Okmulgee County3
- Seminole County3
- Woodward County3
- Beckham County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Kay County3
- Osage County3
- Atoka County2
- Carter County2
- Choctaw County2
- Coal County2
- Jefferson County2
- Love County2
- McCurtain County2
- Marshall County2
- Pushmataha County2
- Adair County2
- Cherokee County2
- Harper County2
- Mayes County2
- Muskogee County2
- Rogers County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Tulsa County2
- Wagoner County2
- Woods County2
- Nowata County2
- Washington County2
- Bryan County1
- Johnston County1
- Craig 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.