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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Comanche County3
- Tillman County3
- Beckham County2
- Greer County2
- Harmon County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Cotton County2
- Garvin County2
- Stephens County2
- Kiowa County2
- Washita County2
- Texas County1
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Carter County1
- Coal County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnston County1
- Love County1
- Marshall County1
- Murray County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Choctaw County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McCurtain County1
- McIntosh County1
- Muskogee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Blaine County1
- Custer County1
- Dewey County1
- Jackson County1
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Creek 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.