Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2004
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2004
9 tornado watches in May 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 30, 20044 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 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Ellis, Grant, Harper, Kay, Major and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 9:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Nowata | 7 hr |
| May 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cleveland, Creek, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, McClain and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Craig, Creek, Custer and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 10:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 8 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
| May 30, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alfalfa County5
- Grant County5
- Kay County5
- Major County4
- Woods County4
- Garfield County4
- Woodward County3
- Nowata County3
- Blaine County3
- Canadian County3
- Custer County3
- Dewey County3
- Kingfisher County3
- Noble County3
- Lincoln County3
- Logan County3
- Oklahoma County3
- Pawnee County3
- Payne County3
- Ellis County2
- Harper County2
- Beckham County2
- Caddo County2
- Comanche County2
- Greer County2
- Harmon County2
- Jackson County2
- Kiowa County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Washita County2
- Cleveland County2
- Creek County2
- Grady County2
- McClain County2
- Osage County2
- Washington County2
- Craig County2
- Mayes County2
- Muskogee County2
- Wagoner County2
23 more counties
- LeFlore County2
- Choctaw County2
- McCurtain County2
- Pushmataha County2
- Pottawatomie County1
- Cotton County1
- Garvin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Stephens County1
- Tillman County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Rogers County1
- Tulsa County1
- Adair County1
- Cherokee County1
- Delaware County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- McIntosh County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Bryan 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.