Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2002
13 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 6, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blaine County6
- Alfalfa County5
- Custer County5
- Grant County5
- Greer County5
- Jackson County5
- Kiowa County5
- Washita County5
- Garfield County5
- Kay County5
- Kingfisher County5
- Dewey County4
- Harmon County4
- Major County4
- Roger Mills County4
- Woods County4
- Woodward County4
- Caddo County4
- Canadian County4
- Comanche County4
- Grady County4
- Logan County4
- Ellis County3
- Harper County3
- Beckham County3
- Noble County3
- Oklahoma County3
- Payne County3
- Stephens County3
- Cotton County3
- Tillman County3
- Texas County2
- Cleveland County2
- McClain County2
- Jefferson County2
- Beaver County1
- Adair County1
- Cherokee County1
- Craig 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. Rebuilt daily.