Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2005
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2005
6 tornado watches in May 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 13, 20053 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 11, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Harper and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 12, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 6 hr |
| May 12, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 5 hr |
| May 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 8 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greer County5
- Harmon County5
- Jackson County5
- Beckham County3
- Roger Mills County2
- Blaine County2
- Caddo County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
- Custer County2
- Dewey County2
- Kiowa County2
- Tillman County2
- Washita County2
- Beaver County1
- Ellis County1
- Harper County1
- Texas County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Creek County1
- Garvin County1
- Grady County1
- Jefferson County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Payne County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Stephens County1
- Cimarron 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.