Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2016
12 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20162 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 9, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 31 more | 10 hr |
| May 11, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 11 hr |
| May 16, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 22, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Love, Marshall and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Coal, Creek, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 35 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 1:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Cimarron, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Roger Mills and 2 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County6
- Tillman County6
- Pottawatomie County5
- Seminole County5
- Stephens County5
- Beckham County5
- Greer County5
- Harmon County5
- Kiowa County5
- Roger Mills County5
- Blaine County4
- Canadian County4
- Cleveland County4
- Grady County4
- Hughes County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- McClain County4
- Carter County4
- Jefferson County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Comanche County4
- Custer County4
- Ellis County4
- Washita County4
- Adair County3
- Alfalfa County3
- Creek County3
- Garfield County3
- Grant County3
- Kay County3
- Kingfisher County3
- McIntosh County3
- Major County3
- Muskogee County3
- Noble County3
- Okfuskee County3
- Oklahoma County3
- Okmulgee County3
- Pawnee County3
34 more counties
- Payne County3
- Wagoner County3
- Coal County3
- Garvin County3
- Murray County3
- Caddo County3
- Dewey County3
- Cimarron County3
- Texas County3
- Cotton County3
- Cherokee County2
- Osage County2
- Tulsa County2
- Haskell County2
- Latimer County2
- LeFlore County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Beaver County2
- Harper County2
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Love County2
- Craig County1
- Delaware County1
- Mayes County1
- Nowata County1
- Ottawa County1
- Rogers County1
- Washington County1
- Choctaw County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Marshall County1
- Johnston 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.