Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, April 2003
13 tornado watches in April 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20033 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 5, 1:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Love | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garvin, Grady and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Craig and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 11:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Stephens, Tillman | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County5
- Comanche County4
- Tillman County4
- Stephens County4
- Love County3
- Dewey County3
- Ellis County3
- Harper County3
- Roger Mills County3
- Woodward County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Kiowa County3
- Johnston County3
- Lincoln County3
- Marshall County3
- Murray County3
- Cotton County3
- Beckham County2
- Alfalfa County2
- Blaine County2
- Canadian County2
- Custer County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Kingfisher County2
- Major County2
- Woods County2
- Carter County2
- Coal County2
- Creek County2
- Hughes County2
- Jefferson County2
- Logan County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Seminole County2
- Kay County2
35 more counties
- Payne County2
- Atoka County2
- Bryan County2
- Beaver County1
- Texas County1
- Caddo County1
- Washita County1
- Cleveland County1
- Garvin County1
- Grady County1
- McClain County1
- Noble County1
- Cherokee County1
- Choctaw County1
- Craig County1
- Delaware County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McCurtain County1
- McIntosh County1
- Mayes County1
- Muskogee County1
- Nowata County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Rogers County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
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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.