Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2002

Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, April 2002

5 tornado watches in April 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
5
Busiest day
April 17, 20022 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Greer, Harmon, Roger Mills, Texas6 hr
Apr 16, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 9 more6 hr
Apr 16, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, McIntosh and 4 more4 hr
Apr 17, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Comanche, Custer, Dewey, Greer and 6 more5 hr
Apr 20, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCaddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Creek and 19 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

14 more counties

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.