Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, April 1998
7 tornado watches in April 1998. 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- April 15, 19983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Ottawa | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Coal, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cotton County4
- Comanche County3
- Garfield County3
- Tillman County3
- Carter County3
- Coal County3
- Garvin County3
- Jefferson County3
- Love County3
- Murray County3
- Stephens County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Caddo County2
- Canadian County2
- Grant County2
- Kingfisher County2
- Kiowa County2
- Major County2
- Johnston County2
- Marshall County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Craig County2
- Kay County2
- Noble County2
- Nowata County2
- Osage County2
- Ottawa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Washington County2
- Beckham County1
- Blaine County1
- Custer County1
- Dewey County1
- Ellis County1
- Greer County1
- Harmon County1
- Harper County1
- Jackson County1
- Roger Mills County1
- Washita County1
29 more counties
- Woods County1
- Woodward County1
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Choctaw County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Cleveland County1
- Creek County1
- Grady County1
- Hughes County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Mayes County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Payne County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Rogers County1
- Seminole County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Adair County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Sequoyah 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.