Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2002
28 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 28
- Busiest month
- May13 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- December 18, 20026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Sequoyah | 5 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Roger Mills, Texas | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, McIntosh and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Comanche, Custer, Dewey, Greer and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Creek and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Texas | 5 hr |
| May 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Grant and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 5, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 7, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kay and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kay | 4 hr |
| May 8, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 23 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Cherokee, Craig, Creek and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton, Tillman | 4 hr |
| May 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woods, Woodward | 5 hr |
| May 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 17 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| May 27, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harmon | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Texas, Woods and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa | 5 hr |
| Dec 17, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Hughes and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 7:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Ottawa | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 1:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greer County7
- Roger Mills County7
- Comanche County7
- Blaine County7
- Kiowa County7
- Washita County7
- Alfalfa County7
- Harmon County6
- Tillman County6
- Custer County6
- Dewey County6
- Jackson County6
- Grant County6
- Woods County6
- Woodward County6
- Garfield County6
- Kay County6
- Beckham County5
- Cotton County5
- Stephens County5
- Caddo County5
- Canadian County5
- Grady County5
- Logan County5
- Ellis County5
- Harper County5
- Major County5
- Kingfisher County5
- Ottawa County5
- Latimer County4
- LeFlore County4
- McCurtain County4
- Sequoyah County4
- Texas County4
- Oklahoma County4
- Osage County4
- Payne County4
- Noble County4
- Adair County4
- Cherokee County4
37 more counties
- Delaware County4
- Choctaw County3
- McIntosh County3
- Pushmataha County3
- Garvin County3
- Jefferson County3
- Cleveland County3
- Creek County3
- McClain County3
- Tulsa County3
- Washington County3
- Craig County3
- Atoka County2
- Bryan County2
- Coal County2
- Haskell County2
- Hughes County2
- Johnston County2
- Marshall County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Seminole County2
- Muskogee County2
- Lincoln County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Pawnee County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Beaver County2
- Mayes County2
- Nowata County2
- Rogers County2
- Wagoner County2
- Carter County1
- Love County1
- Murray County1
- Cimarron County1
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.