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Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 1996

105 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
105
Busiest month
April38 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 22, 199623 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
Mar 14, 4:43 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACreek32 min
Mar 14, 4:54 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACreek51 min
Mar 14, 5:01 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACreek29 min
Mar 14, 5:09 PM CSTTornado WarningTSATulsa51 min
Mar 14, 5:14 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACreek31 min
Mar 14, 5:37 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAWagoner53 min
Mar 14, 6:22 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee38 min
Mar 14, 6:46 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACherokee44 min
Mar 14, 7:22 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Sequoyah53 min
Mar 23, 6:05 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNCuster25 min
Apr 21, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Logan, Noble44 min
Apr 21, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKingfisher44 min
Apr 21, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCotton, Jefferson, Stephens52 min
Apr 21, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNNoble38 min
Apr 21, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Murray49 min
Apr 21, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNJefferson43 min
Apr 21, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarvin, Murray53 min
Apr 21, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Stephens32 min
Apr 21, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Murray, Pontotoc40 min
Apr 21, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage54 min
Apr 21, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham, Washita52 min
Apr 21, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACraig, Nowata40 min
Apr 21, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAWashington36 min
Apr 21, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHughes, Pontotoc39 min
Apr 21, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMurray39 min
Apr 21, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata53 min
Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACraig, Ottawa43 min
Apr 21, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata32 min
Apr 21, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHughes, Pontotoc50 min
Apr 21, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOttawa37 min
Apr 21, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHughes38 min
Apr 21, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg48 min
Apr 21, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell45 min
Apr 21, 9:39 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg21 min
Apr 21, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan68 min
Apr 21, 10:05 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell40 min
Apr 21, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah53 min
Apr 21, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan45 min
Apr 21, 11:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNPushmataha61 min
Apr 22, 12:36 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh39 min
Apr 22, 12:55 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee35 min
Apr 22, 1:19 AM CDTTornado WarningTSASequoyah41 min
Apr 22, 1:45 AM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg45 min
Apr 22, 1:50 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair40 min
Apr 28, 12:15 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay45 min
Apr 28, 12:56 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage34 min
Apr 28, 12:58 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay32 min
Apr 28, 1:27 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage33 min
May 9, 9:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis32 min
May 10, 1:40 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoods35 min
May 25, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACimarron62 min
May 26, 2:53 PM CDTTornado WarningAMATexas52 min
May 26, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrady38 min
May 26, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCanadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma43 min
May 26, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNOklahoma30 min
May 26, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata, Rogers31 min
May 26, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLincoln49 min
May 26, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata39 min
May 26, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACraig47 min
Jun 4, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward36 min
Jun 4, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey, Woodward32 min
Jun 4, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey33 min
Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey31 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, McClain35 min
Jun 6, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarvin48 min
Jun 6, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOkfuskee25 min
Jun 6, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg38 min
Jun 6, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg49 min
Jun 6, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer43 min
Jun 6, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer43 min
Jun 6, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore51 min
Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis21 min
Jun 11, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis30 min
Jun 11, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper30 min
Jun 18, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper44 min
Jun 18, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper32 min
Jun 18, 11:41 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage34 min
Jun 18, 11:55 PM CDTTornado WarningTSATulsa35 min
Jun 19, 12:17 AM CDTTornado WarningTSARogers28 min
Jun 19, 12:28 AM CDTTornado WarningTSATulsa32 min
Jul 22, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningTSATulsa26 min
Aug 1, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg27 min
Aug 1, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell37 min
Aug 11, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKiowa, Washita37 min
Aug 11, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGreer36 min
Aug 11, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGreer, Jackson38 min
Aug 11, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNJackson40 min
Aug 11, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNStephens37 min
Aug 11, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Jefferson, Stephens45 min
Aug 17, 4:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNNoble36 min
Aug 21, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo21 min
Sep 25, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper26 min
Sep 25, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant28 min
Sep 25, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant30 min
Sep 25, 10:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant20 min
Sep 25, 11:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant, Kay30 min
Sep 25, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay45 min
Sep 27, 12:35 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay25 min
Oct 20, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNStephens38 min
Oct 20, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Stephens32 min
Oct 20, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMurray30 min
Oct 20, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMurray32 min
Nov 16, 3:15 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNComanche45 min
Nov 16, 3:23 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNCaddo52 min
Nov 16, 4:56 PM CSTTornado WarningTSANowata34 min

By county

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

16 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 22, 199623tornado warnings
  2. April 21, 199611tornado warnings
  3. March 14, 19966tornado warnings
  4. May 27, 19966tornado warnings
  5. June 7, 19966tornado warnings
  6. June 19, 19966tornado warnings
  7. August 11, 19966tornado warnings
  8. September 26, 19965tornado warnings
  9. April 28, 19964tornado warnings
  10. October 21, 19964tornado warnings
  11. March 15, 19963tornado warnings
  12. June 12, 19963tornado warnings

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.