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Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1987

17 tornado warnings in 1987. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
17
Busiest month
March6 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 23, 19876 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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
Feb 14, 8:13 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNGarvin32 min
Mar 22, 6:30 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNEllis30 min
Mar 22, 6:53 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNHarper37 min
Mar 22, 6:57 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNEllis33 min
Mar 22, 7:55 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNHarper, Woods45 min
Mar 22, 8:10 PM CSTTornado WarningAMABeaver50 min
Mar 22, 8:43 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNRoger Mills32 min
May 21, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLogan31 min
May 21, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLogan40 min
May 26, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WarningAMATexas53 min
Jun 13, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Noble34 min
Jul 17, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNComanche33 min
Jul 17, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNComanche, Kiowa, Tillman31 min
Sep 15, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLogan36 min
Sep 15, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNOklahoma23 min
Sep 15, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLincoln50 min
Sep 15, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNPayne49 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19861988

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. Rebuilt daily.