Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2020
17 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20203 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 4, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin, Jefferson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| May 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 6 more | 9 hr |
| May 13, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 10 more | 4 hr |
| May 15, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw and 25 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 21, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Dewey, Ellis and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 5:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cleveland County7
- Garvin County7
- McClain County7
- Stephens County7
- Comanche County7
- Cotton County7
- Carter County6
- Jefferson County6
- Love County6
- Murray County6
- Beckham County6
- Greer County6
- Tillman County6
- Atoka County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Jackson County5
- Kiowa County5
- Beaver County5
- Caddo County5
- Ellis County5
- Grady County5
- Bryan County4
- Johnston County4
- Marshall County4
- Harmon County4
- Canadian County4
- Oklahoma County4
- Roger Mills County4
- Washita County4
- Coal County4
- Latimer County4
- LeFlore County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Pushmataha County4
- Blaine County3
- Dewey County3
- Garfield County3
- Harper County3
- Kingfisher County3
- Logan County3
31 more counties
- Major County3
- Noble County3
- Woodward County3
- Choctaw County3
- Haskell County3
- Hughes County3
- Pittsburg County3
- Seminole County3
- McCurtain County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Custer County2
- Grant County2
- Kay County2
- Lincoln County2
- Payne County2
- Woods County2
- Creek County2
- McIntosh County2
- Muskogee County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Texas County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Adair County1
- Cherokee County1
- Mayes County1
- Osage County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rogers County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner 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.