Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2017

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2017

13 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
13
Busiest day
May 3, 20172 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 9 more5 hr
May 3, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCraig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa and 3 more4 hr
May 9, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeaver8 hr
May 10, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeaver, Texas3 hr
May 11, 12:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee and 33 more8 hr
May 11, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCMcCurtain9 hr
May 15, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas7 hr
May 16, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 34 more6 hr
May 18, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 26 more6 hr
May 27, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDelaware, Mayes5 hr
May 27, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas6 hr
May 27, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 9 more4 hr
May 28, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 10 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

37 more counties

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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.