Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, December 2008
5 tornado watches in December 2008. 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 December 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- December 27, 20083 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 11:31 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 7 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:11 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 12:03 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 2:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 41 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 27, 6:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 12 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- McCurtain County3
- Choctaw County2
- Pushmataha County2
- Adair County2
- Cherokee County2
- Delaware County2
- Haskell County2
- Latimer County2
- LeFlore County2
- McIntosh County2
- Muskogee County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Blaine County1
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Carter County1
- Cleveland County1
- Comanche County1
- Cotton County1
- Craig County1
- Creek County1
- Custer County1
- Garfield County1
- Garvin County1
- Grady County1
- Grant County1
- Greer County1
- Hughes County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Kay County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- Love County1
- McClain County1
- Major County1
- Mayes County1
25 more counties
- Murray County1
- Noble County1
- Nowata County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Payne County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Rogers County1
- Seminole County1
- Stephens County1
- Tillman County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- Washita County1
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Coal County1
- Johnston County1
- Marshall 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.