Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, December 2002
6 tornado watches in December 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- December 18, 20026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Ottawa County4
- Adair County3
- Cherokee County3
- Delaware County3
- Craig County2
- Creek County1
- Hughes County1
- McIntosh County1
- Mayes County1
- Muskogee County1
- Nowata County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Osage County1
- Rogers County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- Sequoyah County1
- McCurtain 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.