Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 1999
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 1999
19 tornado watches in May 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 19
- Busiest day
- May 4, 19998 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 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Love, Marshall | 5 hr |
| May 3, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 42 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington | 5 hr |
| May 4, 5:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 41 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 14, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman | 6 hr |
| May 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harmon, Jackson | 3 hr |
| May 31, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Harper and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 27 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Tillman County10
- Blaine County9
- Comanche County9
- Cotton County9
- Jackson County9
- Kiowa County9
- Washita County9
- Caddo County8
- Canadian County8
- Jefferson County8
- Kingfisher County8
- Logan County8
- Stephens County8
- Alfalfa County8
- Carter County7
- Custer County7
- Dewey County7
- Garvin County7
- Grady County7
- Greer County7
- Lincoln County7
- McClain County7
- Marshall County7
- Murray County7
- Oklahoma County7
- Pottawatomie County7
- Garfield County7
- Grant County7
- Kay County7
- Love County7
- Major County7
- Cleveland County6
- Noble County6
- Harmon County6
- Woods County6
- Creek County5
- Johnston County5
- Pontotoc County5
- Seminole County5
- Coal County5
36 more counties
- Hughes County5
- Okmulgee County5
- Osage County5
- Pawnee County5
- Payne County5
- Tulsa County5
- Beckham County5
- Ellis County5
- Harper County5
- Roger Mills County5
- Woodward County5
- Okfuskee County4
- Washington County4
- Bryan County3
- Craig County3
- McIntosh County3
- Mayes County3
- Nowata County3
- Rogers County3
- Wagoner County3
- Adair County3
- Choctaw County3
- Haskell County3
- Latimer County3
- LeFlore County3
- McCurtain County3
- Pushmataha County3
- Sequoyah County3
- Beaver County3
- Atoka County2
- Cherokee County2
- Muskogee County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Texas County2
- Delaware County1
- Ottawa County1
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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.