Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2009
7 tornado watches in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20092 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 1, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 12:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, McCurtain and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| May 6, 12:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 5 hr |
| May 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 23 more | 11 hr |
| May 8, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 5 hr |
| May 15, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 12 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- McCurtain County5
- Atoka County3
- Bryan County3
- Coal County3
- Johnston County3
- Marshall County3
- Carter County2
- Garvin County2
- Hughes County2
- Jefferson County2
- Love County2
- Murray County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Seminole County2
- Stephens County2
- Choctaw County2
- Pushmataha County2
- Cleveland County1
- Comanche County1
- Cotton County1
- Grady County1
- Jackson County1
- McClain County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Tillman County1
- Adair County1
- Cherokee County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McIntosh County1
- Muskogee County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Wagoner County1
- Alfalfa County1
- Beckham County1
- Blaine 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.