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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 1997

35 tornado watches in 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 watches reaches back to 1997.

Tornado Watches by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
35
Busiest month
May18 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 1, 19973 tornado watches

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
Feb 20, 1:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 15 more5 hr
Mar 1, 12:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain6 hr
Mar 24, 10:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston and 2 more6 hr
Apr 11, 3:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCLove6 hr
Apr 20, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 7 more6 hr
May 1, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas6 hr
May 1, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more5 hr
May 1, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major and 3 more4 hr
May 1, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCaddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady and 3 more3 hr
May 1, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 32 more6 hr
May 6, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas5 hr
May 6, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Harmon6 hr
May 7, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 13 more6 hr
May 7, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraig, Kay, Mayes, Noble, Nowata, Osage and 7 more6 hr
May 7, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 30 more6 hr
May 22, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas7 hr
May 25, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 36 more6 hr
May 25, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 45 more5 hr
May 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 24 more6 hr
May 26, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, Latimer and 5 more5 hr
May 28, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas5 hr
May 29, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas6 hr
May 29, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 6 more6 hr
Jun 11, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woods and 1 more6 hr
Jun 11, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more6 hr
Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita6 hr
Jun 12, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 6 more6 hr
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 17 more6 hr
Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more6 hr
Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Beckham, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 39 more6 hr
Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 34 more6 hr
Jun 29, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield and 22 more6 hr
Oct 8, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCaddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 29 more5 hr
Oct 12, 12:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCimarron6 hr
Oct 25, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 16 more7 hr

By county

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

37 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 1, 19973tornado watches
  2. May 7, 19973tornado watches
  3. June 13, 19973tornado watches
  4. May 2, 19972tornado watches
  5. May 26, 19972tornado watches
  6. May 29, 19972tornado watches
  7. June 11, 19972tornado watches
  8. February 20, 19971tornado watches
  9. March 1, 19971tornado watches
  10. March 25, 19971tornado watches
  11. April 11, 19971tornado watches
  12. April 20, 19971tornado watches

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.