Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2008
12 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20082 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 5, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 8 hr |
| May 5, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Harmon, Jackson, Texas, Tillman | 7 hr |
| May 7, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble, Nowata and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa, Rogers, Tulsa | 3 hr |
| May 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Creek and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Garvin, Grady, Lincoln and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Greer and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 10 hr |
| May 31, 4:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Grant and 12 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grant County4
- Caddo County4
- Cimarron County3
- Alfalfa County3
- Beaver County3
- Garfield County3
- Roger Mills County3
- Texas County3
- Harmon County3
- Jackson County3
- Tillman County3
- Delaware County3
- Mayes County3
- Ottawa County3
- Kay County3
- Nowata County3
- Osage County3
- Pawnee County3
- Washington County3
- Rogers County3
- Tulsa County3
- Beckham County3
- Custer County3
- Washita County3
- Dewey County2
- Major County2
- Woods County2
- Adair County2
- Cherokee County2
- Muskogee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Wagoner County2
- Noble County2
- Craig County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
- Grady County2
- Greer County2
- Kiowa County2
- Canadian County2
23 more counties
- Creek County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Payne County2
- Ellis County1
- Harper County1
- Woodward County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McIntosh County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Blaine County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Cleveland County1
- Garvin County1
- McClain County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Jefferson County1
- Stephens 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.