Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 1997
18 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 1, 19973 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 6 hr |
| May 1, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 1, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 5 hr |
| May 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Harmon | 6 hr |
| May 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Kay, Mayes, Noble, Nowata, Osage and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 45 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, Latimer and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 5 hr |
| May 29, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beaver County6
- Custer County6
- Washita County6
- Blaine County6
- Dewey County6
- Major County6
- Garfield County6
- Grant County6
- Kay County6
- Kingfisher County6
- Noble County6
- Osage County6
- Pawnee County6
- Payne County6
- Texas County5
- Greer County5
- Harmon County5
- Jackson County5
- Kiowa County5
- Alfalfa County5
- Woods County5
- Woodward County5
- Canadian County5
- Grady County5
- Creek County5
- Lincoln County5
- Nowata County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Washington County5
- Beckham County4
- Roger Mills County4
- Caddo County4
- Comanche County4
- Cotton County4
- Stephens County4
- Cleveland County4
- Logan County4
- McClain County4
- Oklahoma County4
- Craig County4
37 more counties
- Mayes County4
- Ottawa County4
- Rogers County4
- Tulsa County4
- Tillman County3
- Ellis County3
- Harper County3
- Jefferson County3
- Wagoner County3
- Love County3
- Marshall County3
- Okfuskee County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Seminole County3
- Latimer County3
- Cimarron County2
- Carter County2
- Garvin County2
- Murray County2
- Atoka County2
- Bryan County2
- Cherokee County2
- Choctaw County2
- Coal County2
- Delaware County2
- Haskell County2
- Hughes County2
- Johnston County2
- McIntosh County2
- Muskogee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Pushmataha County2
- Adair County1
- LeFlore County1
- Sequoyah County1
- McCurtain County1
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.