Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 1998
11 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 25, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Cherokee, Craig, Creek and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Harper and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton, Tillman | 5 hr |
| May 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton | 7 hr |
| May 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Cherokee, Craig, Creek and 25 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair | 6 hr |
| May 25, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County4
- Ellis County4
- Cotton County4
- Cherokee County3
- Craig County3
- Delaware County3
- Dewey County3
- Harper County3
- Mayes County3
- Nowata County3
- Ottawa County3
- Rogers County3
- Tulsa County3
- Wagoner County3
- Washington County3
- Woods County3
- Woodward County3
- Roger Mills County3
- Tillman County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Blaine County2
- Creek County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Kay County2
- Kingfisher County2
- Logan County2
- Major County2
- Noble County2
- Osage County2
- Pawnee County2
- Payne County2
- Beckham County2
- Greer County2
- Harmon County2
- Haskell County1
- Hughes County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McIntosh 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.