Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2003

Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2003

34 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
34
Busiest day
May 16, 20037 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
May 1, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 11 more5 hr
May 3, 1:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 8 more6 hr
May 3, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCaddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer, Harmon and 5 more5 hr
May 3, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 14 more6 hr
May 4, 12:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 22 more6 hr
May 4, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 6 more6 hr
May 4, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 5 more7 hr
May 5, 12:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, LeFlore, McCurtain, Sequoyah5 hr
May 5, 10:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, McCurtain5 hr
May 6, 11:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Muskogee and 9 more7 hr
May 6, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 12 more6 hr
May 6, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer and 4 more5 hr
May 6, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLeFlore, McCurtain6 hr
May 7, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon and 4 more6 hr
May 7, 10:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more5 hr
May 8, 6:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah3 hr
May 8, 1:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more7 hr
May 8, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Delaware, Haskell and 17 more5 hr
May 9, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 18 more5 hr
May 9, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa and 4 more6 hr
May 9, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 9 more5 hr
May 9, 11:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Lincoln, Mayes and 12 more6 hr
May 10, 11:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 30 more7 hr
May 14, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha6 hr
May 15, 1:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas6 hr
May 15, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJackson, Tillman6 hr
May 15, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Cimarron, Comanche and 13 more5 hr
May 15, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman6 hr
May 15, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 13 more4 hr
May 16, 1:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 33 more6 hr
May 16, 12:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Canadian, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 23 more6 hr
May 16, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 10 more5 hr
May 16, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair6 hr
May 16, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain6 hr

By county

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

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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.