Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2010

Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2010

13 tornado watches in May 2010. 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 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
13
Busiest day
May 10, 20102 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
Apr 30, 9:09 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCMcCurtain7 hr
May 10, 1:25 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 38 more9 hr
May 10, 5:00 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 19 more6 hr
May 11, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 12 more6 hr
May 11, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kay and 4 more8 hr
May 12, 2:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 21 more7 hr
May 18, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas7 hr
May 18, 10:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 7 more5 hr
May 19, 2:06 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAtoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 50 more8 hr
May 19, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair6 hr
May 19, 9:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 22 more4 hr
May 23, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCimarron, Texas7 hr
May 24, 11:46 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas10 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.