Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2008

Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2008

20 tornado watches in May 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 May 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
20
Busiest day
May 25, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCanadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Cotton, Craig and 35 more7 hr
May 2, 1:09 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 39 more7 hr
May 7, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Cotton and 14 more6 hr
May 7, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 20 more8 hr
May 10, 11:29 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 11 more9 hr
May 10, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 16 more10 hr
May 13, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 28 more9 hr
May 13, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa and 3 more5 hr
May 22, 2:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche and 15 more7 hr
May 22, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Creek, Custer, Dewey and 16 more8 hr
May 23, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 11 more8 hr
May 24, 1:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Creek, Garfield, Grant and 11 more6 hr
May 24, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Creek, Custer, Dewey and 17 more5 hr
May 25, 12:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas5 hr
May 25, 1:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more7 hr
May 25, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Texas, Woods and 1 more7 hr
May 26, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 14 more6 hr
May 26, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Custer and 23 more7 hr
May 30, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington7 hr
May 31, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Craig, Creek and 19 more7 hr

By county

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

37 more counties

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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.