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Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 2002

46 tornado warnings in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
46
Busiest month
April23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 18, 200211 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
Apr 11, 10:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Grant31 min
Apr 11, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Noble30 min
Apr 11, 11:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Noble28 min
Apr 16, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka, Coal, Johnston24 min
Apr 16, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka, Coal, Johnston20 min
Apr 16, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka24 min
Apr 16, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka45 min
Apr 16, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha47 min
Apr 16, 9:16 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka29 min
Apr 16, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha44 min
Apr 17, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward35 min
Apr 17, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward30 min
Apr 17, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey27 min
Apr 17, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham40 min
Apr 17, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham35 min
Apr 17, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham32 min
Apr 17, 9:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWashita37 min
Apr 17, 10:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster41 min
Apr 17, 11:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor37 min
Apr 18, 12:28 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor, Woods32 min
Apr 18, 12:51 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods39 min
Apr 18, 1:26 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNAlfalfa34 min
Apr 18, 1:57 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNAlfalfa, Grant33 min
May 1, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee32 min
May 5, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis, Roger Mills43 min
May 5, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis, Roger Mills50 min
May 5, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey38 min
May 5, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey36 min
May 5, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey48 min
May 5, 9:51 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarmon39 min
May 5, 10:02 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNDewey28 min
May 5, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor33 min
May 5, 10:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBlaine, Major46 min
May 8, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant21 min
May 8, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay34 min
May 8, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Noble34 min
May 9, 2:49 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee41 min
May 9, 3:03 AM CDTTornado WarningTSASequoyah57 min
May 16, 10:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKingfisher32 min
May 16, 11:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster, Roger Mills38 min
May 17, 12:11 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster, Dewey34 min
May 23, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis38 min
Oct 3, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoods35 min
Oct 3, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoods30 min
Oct 3, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoods30 min
Dec 18, 12:27 AM CSTTornado WarningTSACraig, Ottawa48 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.

  1. April 18, 200211tornado warnings
  2. April 17, 20029tornado warnings
  3. May 6, 20029tornado warnings
  4. May 9, 20024tornado warnings
  5. April 12, 20023tornado warnings
  6. May 17, 20023tornado warnings
  7. October 3, 20023tornado warnings
  8. May 2, 20021tornado warnings
  9. May 8, 20021tornado warnings
  10. May 23, 20021tornado warnings
  11. December 18, 20021tornado 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.