Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2001
45 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 45
- Busiest month
- May16 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 11, 20014 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 9, 2:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Texas | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, Stephens and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware, Haskell and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Craig, Delaware, Garfield, Grant, Kay and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Kingfisher and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Craig, Creek and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Greer, Harmon and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cleveland and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more | 2 hr |
| May 20, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 29, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| May 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kay, Major and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Harper and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Noble, Osage and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 7, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Garfield and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 7, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 9, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 9, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 13 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 9, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Cleveland, Creek, Garvin, Haskell, Hughes and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Coal, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston, Love and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 23, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 23, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ottawa | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carter County16
- Coal County16
- Garvin County16
- Johnston County16
- Pontotoc County16
- Love County15
- Murray County15
- Stephens County15
- Atoka County14
- Jefferson County14
- Marshall County14
- Bryan County13
- Cotton County13
- Latimer County13
- Grady County13
- McClain County13
- Pottawatomie County13
- Cherokee County12
- Haskell County12
- LeFlore County12
- Mayes County12
- Pittsburg County12
- Pushmataha County12
- Wagoner County12
- Cleveland County12
- Hughes County12
- Seminole County12
- Alfalfa County12
- Garfield County12
- Grant County12
- Logan County12
- Major County12
- Noble County12
- Okfuskee County12
- Comanche County11
- Choctaw County11
- Delaware County11
- McIntosh County11
- Muskogee County11
- Creek County11
37 more counties
- Kay County11
- Lincoln County11
- Oklahoma County11
- Osage County11
- Pawnee County11
- Payne County11
- Adair County10
- Sequoyah County10
- Caddo County10
- Kingfisher County10
- Kiowa County10
- Tulsa County10
- Washington County10
- Okmulgee County10
- Blaine County9
- Canadian County9
- Nowata County9
- McCurtain County8
- Craig County8
- Ottawa County8
- Harper County8
- Beckham County8
- Custer County8
- Greer County8
- Washita County8
- Woods County8
- Woodward County8
- Tillman County8
- Rogers County8
- Ellis County7
- Dewey County7
- Roger Mills County7
- Harmon County7
- Jackson County7
- Texas County4
- Beaver County3
- Cimarron County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.