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Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 2016

95 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
95
Busiest month
May54 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 9, 201621 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 23, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer, Pushmataha35 min
Mar 30, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage28 min
Mar 30, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage, Washington33 min
Mar 30, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage, Pawnee, Tulsa44 min
Mar 30, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata, Washington29 min
Mar 30, 7:29 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatTSARogers, Tulsa46 min
Mar 30, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACraig, Nowata24 min
Mar 30, 8:08 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTSAMayes, Rogers52 min
Mar 30, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACraig12 min
Mar 30, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware, Mayes34 min
Apr 10, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCotton24 min
Apr 15, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACimarron, Texas23 min
Apr 15, 7:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAMACimarron, Texas23 min
Apr 15, 8:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAMATexas48 min
Apr 16, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNTillman24 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNTillman15 min
Apr 26, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLincoln, Logan, Oklahoma30 min
Apr 26, 9:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNJohnston11 min
Apr 26, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage23 min
Apr 26, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACreek, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa30 min
Apr 26, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTSARogers, Tulsa, Wagoner34 min
Apr 26, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACherokee, Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner44 min
Apr 26, 11:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACraig32 min
Apr 26, 11:14 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah31 min
Apr 26, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Mayes25 min
Apr 26, 11:44 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Sequoyah31 min
Apr 27, 12:01 AM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware14 min
Apr 27, 12:13 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair32 min
Apr 29, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche, Grady40 min
Apr 29, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche, Grady49 min
Apr 29, 4:29 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain46 min
Apr 29, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOkfuskee38 min
Apr 29, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHughes12 min
May 8, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNComanche36 min
May 8, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNComanche, Cotton, Stephens35 min
May 8, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNStephens21 min
May 9, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarvin, Murray25 min
May 9, 4:27 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOUNGarvin, Murray33 min
May 9, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Pottawatomie50 min
May 9, 4:52 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedConsiderable damage threatOUNGarvin, Murray, Pontotoc23 min
May 9, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan, Marshall35 min
May 9, 5:12 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threatOUNMurray, Pontotoc33 min
May 9, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka, Coal, Johnston26 min
May 9, 5:23 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNCleveland, Pottawatomie37 min
May 9, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan26 min
May 9, 5:35 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNNoble, Payne25 min
May 9, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka, Coal34 min
May 9, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNNoble, Payne50 min
May 9, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan33 min
May 9, 6:09 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNAtoka, Coal36 min
May 9, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAChoctaw48 min
May 9, 6:19 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNNoble, Payne26 min
May 9, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPawnee32 min
May 9, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPawnee19 min
May 9, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrant, Kay43 min
May 9, 6:53 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTSAChoctaw52 min
May 9, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha13 min
May 9, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain53 min
May 16, 4:36 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedAMACimarron24 min
May 16, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACimarron25 min
May 16, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis, Roger Mills29 min
May 16, 10:02 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham, Roger Mills28 min
May 22, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningAMATexas29 min
May 22, 11:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGreer, Jackson27 min
May 23, 1:58 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNCotton, Jefferson, Stephens32 min
May 23, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward26 min
May 23, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward31 min
May 23, 8:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward31 min
May 23, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis35 min
May 23, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper31 min
May 24, 1:32 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNTillman28 min
May 24, 2:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNNoble, Payne32 min
May 24, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNPayne25 min
May 24, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACreek24 min
May 24, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACreek13 min
May 25, 1:07 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka, Coal38 min
May 25, 1:34 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAMuskogee, Okmulgee, Wagoner26 min
May 25, 1:40 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka20 min
May 25, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAlfalfa, Garfield34 min
May 25, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAlfalfa32 min
May 25, 9:54 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNGarfield36 min
May 25, 10:18 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarfield, Grant27 min
May 26, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarper26 min
May 26, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis36 min
May 26, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis, Woodward33 min
May 26, 9:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNRoger Mills30 min
May 26, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNEllis, Roger Mills35 min
Jul 3, 4:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNPayne48 min
Jul 3, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLincoln, Logan30 min
Jul 3, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLincoln, Logan31 min
Jul 3, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLincoln31 min
Jul 14, 12:19 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACreek, Tulsa6 min
Aug 25, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham, Custer, Roger Mills34 min
Aug 25, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster, Dewey35 min
Aug 25, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster33 min

By county

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

21 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 9, 201621tornado warnings
  2. April 27, 201612tornado warnings
  3. May 24, 201610tornado warnings
  4. March 31, 20166tornado warnings
  5. May 26, 20165tornado warnings
  6. April 29, 20164tornado warnings
  7. May 27, 20164tornado warnings
  8. July 3, 20164tornado warnings
  9. March 30, 20163tornado warnings
  10. May 23, 20163tornado warnings
  11. May 25, 20163tornado warnings
  12. August 25, 20163tornado 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.