Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2011
13 tornado watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20113 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, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more | 3 hr |
| May 19, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more | 9 hr |
| May 20, 11:03 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 3 hr |
| May 21, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Creek and 14 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 1:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Hughes and 10 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 26 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 13 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 51 more | 11 hr |
| May 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 5 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Garvin County5
- Jefferson County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Adair County5
- Choctaw County5
- Haskell County5
- Latimer County5
- LeFlore County5
- Pushmataha County5
- Sequoyah County5
- McIntosh County5
- Pittsburg County5
- McCurtain County4
- Alfalfa County4
- Blaine County4
- Caddo County4
- Canadian County4
- Carter County4
- Cleveland County4
- Comanche County4
- Cotton County4
- Custer County4
- Dewey County4
- Garfield County4
- Grady County4
- Grant County4
- Kingfisher County4
- Kiowa County4
- Logan County4
- Love County4
- McClain County4
- Major County4
- Murray County4
- Oklahoma County4
- Stephens County4
- Tillman County4
- Washita County4
- Woods County4
- Lincoln County4
- Creek County4
34 more counties
- Okfuskee County4
- Okmulgee County4
- Cherokee County4
- Muskogee County4
- Greer County3
- Jackson County3
- Atoka County3
- Bryan County3
- Coal County3
- Hughes County3
- Johnston County3
- Marshall County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Seminole County3
- Delaware County3
- Mayes County3
- Osage County3
- Pawnee County3
- Rogers County3
- Tulsa County3
- Wagoner County3
- Washington County3
- Payne County3
- Ellis County2
- Harper County2
- Woodward County2
- Beckham County2
- Harmon County2
- Craig County2
- Nowata County2
- Ottawa County2
- Kay County2
- Noble County2
- Roger Mills County1
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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.