Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2023
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2023
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20231 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, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall | 8 hr |
| May 6, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cotton, Jackson, Tillman | 6 hr |
| May 10, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 8 hr |
| May 12, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 37 more | 10 hr |
| May 19, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 14 more | 9 hr |
| May 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 8 hr |
| May 24, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 9 hr |
| May 25, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 8 hr |
| May 30, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Johnston County4
- Marshall County4
- Cimarron County4
- Carter County3
- Love County3
- Cotton County3
- Tillman County3
- Jackson County3
- Caddo County2
- Comanche County2
- Garvin County2
- Grady County2
- Jefferson County2
- Murray County2
- Stephens County2
- Coal County2
- Hughes County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Seminole County2
- Texas County2
- Blaine County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Creek County1
- Custer County1
- Kay County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Noble County1
- Nowata County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Osage County1
- Pawnee County1
- Payne County1
21 more counties
- Rogers County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- Washita County1
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Choctaw County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McCurtain County1
- McIntosh County1
- Muskogee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Beckham County1
- Greer County1
- Harmon County1
- Beaver 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.