Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2025
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, May 2025
16 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20253 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, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 40 more | 8 hr |
| May 17, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| May 17, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 31 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 9 more | 3 hr |
| May 20, 1:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 5 hr |
| May 22, 10:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Hughes and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 22, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 5 more | 10 hr |
| May 24, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee and 44 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 9:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 25 more | 9 hr |
| May 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 25, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 7 hr |
| May 28, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 7 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hughes County7
- Pittsburg County7
- Pushmataha County7
- Atoka County6
- Coal County6
- Johnston County6
- Latimer County6
- Logan County6
- Pottawatomie County6
- Seminole County6
- Bryan County5
- Canadian County5
- Carter County5
- Choctaw County5
- Cleveland County5
- Grady County5
- Kingfisher County5
- LeFlore County5
- Lincoln County5
- Love County5
- McClain County5
- McIntosh County5
- Marshall County5
- Murray County5
- Okfuskee County5
- Oklahoma County5
- Pontotoc County5
- Blaine County4
- Garvin County4
- Haskell County4
- Jefferson County4
- Okmulgee County4
- Garfield County4
- Major County4
- Muskogee County4
- Payne County4
- Sequoyah County4
- Caddo County3
- Comanche County3
- Cotton County3
37 more counties
- Custer County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Jackson County3
- Kiowa County3
- Roger Mills County3
- Stephens County3
- Tillman County3
- McCurtain County3
- Adair County3
- Cherokee County3
- Creek County3
- Noble County3
- Nowata County3
- Osage County3
- Pawnee County3
- Rogers County3
- Tulsa County3
- Wagoner County3
- Washington County3
- Alfalfa County3
- Grant County3
- Woods County3
- Beckham County2
- Dewey County2
- Washita County2
- Craig County2
- Delaware County2
- Kay County2
- Mayes County2
- Ottawa County2
- Harper County2
- Woodward County2
- Cimarron County2
- Beaver County1
- Texas County1
- Ellis 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.