Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2001
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2001
16 tornado watches in May 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 May 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20014 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carter County8
- Garvin County7
- Johnston County7
- Love County7
- Murray County7
- Pontotoc County7
- Jefferson County6
- Stephens County6
- Coal County6
- Marshall County6
- Comanche County5
- Cotton County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Atoka County5
- Latimer County5
- LeFlore County5
- Cleveland County4
- Grady County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- McClain County4
- Oklahoma County4
- Bryan County4
- Greer County4
- Harmon County4
- Jackson County4
- Kiowa County4
- Tillman County4
- Creek County4
- Hughes County4
- Mayes County4
- Okfuskee County4
- Pittsburg County4
- Seminole County4
- Wagoner County4
- Adair County4
- Cherokee County4
- Haskell County4
- Pushmataha County4
- Sequoyah County4
37 more counties
- Blaine County3
- Caddo County3
- Canadian County3
- Kingfisher County3
- Payne County3
- Beckham County3
- Washita County3
- McIntosh County3
- Okmulgee County3
- Choctaw County3
- Delaware County3
- Muskogee County3
- Texas County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Custer County2
- Dewey County2
- Ellis County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Harper County2
- Major County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Craig County2
- Kay County2
- Noble County2
- Nowata County2
- Osage County2
- Pawnee County2
- Rogers County2
- Tulsa County2
- Washington County2
- Cimarron County2
- McCurtain County2
- Ottawa County1
- Beaver 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.