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Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, 2020

87 tornado warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
87
Busiest month
April36 tornado warnings
Busiest day
January 10, 202016 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
Jan 10, 10:29 AM CSTTornado WarningOUNHughes31 min
Jan 10, 10:37 AM CSTTornado WarningOUNLincoln9 min
Jan 10, 11:34 AM CSTTornado WarningTSACherokee, Delaware, Mayes, Wagoner41 min
Jan 10, 1:04 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACherokee, Muskogee, Wagoner41 min
Jan 10, 1:11 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh, Pittsburg36 min
Jan 10, 1:22 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACraig, Nowata16 min
Jan 10, 1:31 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACherokee, Delaware, Mayes44 min
Jan 10, 1:37 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg38 min
Jan 10, 2:06 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAMcIntosh, Muskogee39 min
Jan 10, 2:09 PM CSTTornado WarningTSADelaware9 min
Jan 10, 2:20 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNAtoka25 min
Jan 10, 2:25 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNAtoka21 min
Jan 10, 2:36 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Muskogee39 min
Jan 10, 2:51 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAHaskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg39 min
Jan 10, 3:12 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Delaware28 min
Jan 10, 3:40 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAHaskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah34 min
Jan 10, 7:06 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain24 min
Jan 10, 7:08 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAChoctaw10 min
Jan 10, 7:49 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain25 min
Mar 18, 11:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLove24 min
Mar 18, 11:29 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNLove, Marshall46 min
Apr 11, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNHarmon14 min
Apr 21, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham, Custer, Washita19 min
Apr 21, 11:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNComanche, Grady, Stephens32 min
Apr 21, 11:53 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNStephens52 min
Apr 22, 12:16 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Garvin, Murray, Stephens27 min
Apr 22, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarvin, Murray, Pontotoc43 min
Apr 22, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Johnston, Murray53 min
Apr 22, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCarter, Love, Marshall51 min
Apr 22, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCoal, Pontotoc50 min
Apr 22, 4:58 PM CDTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatOUNAtoka, Bryan, Johnston, Marshall47 min
Apr 22, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCoal, Johnston46 min
Apr 22, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan, Marshall45 min
Apr 22, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNAtoka, Coal, Johnston51 min
Apr 22, 5:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatOUNAtoka, Bryan40 min
Apr 22, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan45 min
Apr 22, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAChoctaw50 min
Apr 22, 6:00 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedTSAChoctaw, Pushmataha30 min
Apr 22, 7:01 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedSHVMcCurtain44 min
Apr 22, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain21 min
Apr 22, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain23 min
Apr 22, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain23 min
Apr 24, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBryan38 min
Apr 28, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningTSANowata38 min
Apr 28, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOsage, Tulsa29 min
Apr 28, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMayes, Rogers28 min
Apr 28, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACreek, Tulsa29 min
Apr 28, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware, Mayes, Rogers42 min
Apr 28, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAMayes29 min
Apr 28, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware37 min
Apr 28, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg, Pushmataha67 min
Apr 28, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg22 min
Apr 28, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore26 min
Apr 28, 9:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg, Pushmataha24 min
Apr 28, 9:21 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPushmataha39 min
Apr 28, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain42 min
Apr 28, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain16 min
May 4, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Garvin, McClain, Pottawatomie36 min
May 16, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain42 min
May 16, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain50 min
May 16, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain49 min
May 16, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain46 min
May 16, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain43 min
May 16, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain52 min
May 16, 4:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedSHVMcCurtain38 min
May 16, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVMcCurtain48 min
May 22, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNTillman33 min
May 22, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer, Pittsburg47 min
May 22, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore58 min
May 22, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALatimer45 min
May 22, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore38 min
May 22, 10:27 PM CDTTornado WarningTSALeFlore46 min
May 22, 11:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAHaskell, Latimer, Pittsburg49 min
May 25, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACherokee, Mayes49 min
May 25, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAAdair, Delaware45 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware50 min
May 25, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningTSADelaware, Ottawa49 min
May 25, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAOttawa50 min
Jun 21, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNMajor, Woods, Woodward20 min
Aug 10, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWoodward9 min
Sep 1, 12:17 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNHughes28 min
Sep 1, 12:38 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNHughes, Pontotoc, Seminole37 min
Sep 1, 12:44 AM CDTTornado WarningOUNHughes31 min
Sep 1, 12:49 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg26 min
Sep 1, 1:14 AM CDTTornado WarningTSAPittsburg32 min
Nov 14, 6:18 PM CSTTornado WarningTSAOttawa7 min
Nov 24, 9:53 PM CSTTornado WarningTSALeFlore, Sequoyah19 min

By county

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

9 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 10, 202016tornado warnings
  2. April 22, 202016tornado warnings
  3. April 29, 20208tornado warnings
  4. May 16, 20208tornado warnings
  5. April 28, 20206tornado warnings
  6. May 23, 20206tornado warnings
  7. September 1, 20205tornado warnings
  8. April 23, 20204tornado warnings
  9. May 26, 20204tornado warnings
  10. January 11, 20203tornado warnings
  11. March 19, 20202tornado warnings
  12. April 11, 20201tornado warnings

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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.