Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings / 1997
Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, May 1997
74 tornado warnings in May 1997. 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 74
- Busiest day
- May 27, 199724 tornado warnings
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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, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Washita | 47 min |
| May 2, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 28 min |
| May 6, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Texas | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Grant | 26 min |
| May 7, 6:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Grant | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Grant | 48 min |
| May 7, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Grant, Kay | 39 min |
| May 7, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 50 min |
| May 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 54 min |
| May 7, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 40 min |
| May 7, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 66 min |
| May 7, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 60 min |
| May 7, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Harmon | 51 min |
| May 7, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa, Washington | 51 min |
| May 25, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Grady, McClain | 42 min |
| May 25, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain | 65 min |
| May 25, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche | 42 min |
| May 25, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie | 53 min |
| May 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Grady | 35 min |
| May 25, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Stephens | 41 min |
| May 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Garvin | 68 min |
| May 25, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Murray | 34 min |
| May 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Stephens | 45 min |
| May 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Murray | 62 min |
| May 25, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Johnston, Pontotoc | 48 min |
| May 25, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Carter | 33 min |
| May 25, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Carter | 46 min |
| May 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Coal, Johnston, Pontotoc | 55 min |
| May 25, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Johnston, Marshall | 39 min |
| May 25, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka, Johnston | 31 min |
| May 25, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kay | 38 min |
| May 25, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan, Marshall | 45 min |
| May 25, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka, Pushmataha | 35 min |
| May 25, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kay | 51 min |
| May 25, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka | 48 min |
| May 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan | 45 min |
| May 25, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Kay | 44 min |
| May 25, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 35 min |
| May 25, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Atoka, Pushmataha | 45 min |
| May 25, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Choctaw, Pushmataha | 45 min |
| May 26, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Seminole | 30 min |
| May 26, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 28 min |
| May 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Creek, Tulsa | 41 min |
| May 26, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage | 47 min |
| May 26, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 43 min |
| May 26, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 48 min |
| May 26, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 27 min |
| May 26, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 59 min |
| May 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Wagoner | 54 min |
| May 26, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 43 min |
| May 26, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Hughes | 23 min |
| May 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | McIntosh | 48 min |
| May 26, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 54 min |
| May 26, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Pittsburg | 52 min |
| May 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Ottawa | 52 min |
| May 26, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig | 50 min |
| May 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Johnston, Marshall | 30 min |
| May 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, Pittsburg | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Marshall | 27 min |
| May 26, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 59 min |
| May 26, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan, Marshall | 36 min |
| May 26, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer | 63 min |
| May 26, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Bryan, Marshall | 47 min |
| May 26, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 49 min |
| May 26, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Marshall | 35 min |
| May 26, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Pushmataha | 45 min |
| May 26, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 30 min |
| May 26, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 36 min |
| May 27, 12:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 68 min |
| May 29, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Ellis, Woodward | 25 min |
| May 29, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Woodward | 33 min |
| May 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Dewey, Ellis | 45 min |
| May 29, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 47 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marshall County7
- Kay County6
- Osage County6
- Johnston County5
- LeFlore County4
- Grant County4
- Tulsa County4
- Atoka County4
- Bryan County4
- Pushmataha County4
- McClain County3
- Okmulgee County3
- Pittsburg County3
- Noble County2
- Pawnee County2
- Grady County2
- Cleveland County2
- Stephens County2
- Murray County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Carter County2
- Muskogee County2
- Latimer County2
- Ellis County2
- Woodward County2
- Dewey County2
- Washita County1
- Texas County1
- Harmon County1
- Washington County1
- Caddo County1
- Comanche County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Garvin County1
- Coal County1
- Choctaw County1
- Seminole County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Creek 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. Rebuilt daily.