Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings / 2023

Tornado Warnings in Oklahoma, May 2023

24 tornado warnings in May 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
24
Busiest day
May 12, 202320 tornado warnings

Over time

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCanadian, Grady30 min
May 11, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain32 min
May 11, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrady29 min
May 11, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain38 min
May 11, 7:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNGrady45 min
May 11, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Grady, McClain42 min
May 11, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrady, McClain31 min
May 11, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, McClain43 min
May 11, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGrady26 min
May 11, 8:43 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNCleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie47 min
May 11, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Oklahoma27 min
May 11, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNGarvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie33 min
May 11, 9:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, McClain50 min
May 11, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole49 min
May 11, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie30 min
May 11, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNPottawatomie, Seminole33 min
May 11, 10:16 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCleveland, Pottawatomie44 min
May 11, 10:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCoal, Pontotoc48 min
May 11, 11:21 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCoal, Hughes24 min
May 11, 11:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCoal, Hughes, Pontotoc43 min
May 12, 8:07 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedOUNKay, Noble23 min
May 12, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay, Noble29 min
May 12, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay, Noble35 min
May 12, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNKay, Noble19 min

By county

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

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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.