Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2012
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20123 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 1, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware | 3 hr |
| May 4, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Love and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 5 hr |
| May 19, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 8 hr |
| May 25, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 8 hr |
| May 28, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 13 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 38 more | 12 hr |
| May 29, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Creek, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| May 30, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 37 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 17 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Comanche County5
- Cotton County5
- Jackson County5
- Stephens County5
- Tillman County5
- Canadian County5
- Custer County5
- Dewey County5
- Ellis County5
- Kingfisher County5
- Washita County5
- Woods County5
- Woodward County5
- Carter County4
- Jefferson County4
- Love County4
- Murray County4
- Alfalfa County4
- Beckham County4
- Blaine County4
- Caddo County4
- Garfield County4
- Grant County4
- Kay County4
- Major County4
- Noble County4
- Grady County4
- Kiowa County4
- Logan County4
- Payne County4
- Harper County4
- Roger Mills County3
- Greer County3
- Osage County3
- Pawnee County3
- Cleveland County3
- Garvin County3
- Lincoln County3
- McClain County3
- Oklahoma County3
36 more counties
- Pottawatomie County3
- Adair County2
- Cherokee County2
- Delaware County2
- McCurtain County2
- Harmon County2
- Beaver County2
- Johnston County2
- Marshall County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Seminole County2
- Creek County2
- Haskell County2
- Latimer County2
- LeFlore County2
- McIntosh County2
- Muskogee County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Rogers County2
- Tulsa County2
- Wagoner County2
- Washington County2
- Cimarron County1
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Coal County1
- Hughes County1
- Choctaw County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Craig County1
- Mayes County1
- Nowata County1
- Ottawa County1
- Sequoyah County1
Nearby
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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.