Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2012
29 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 29
- Busiest month
- April13 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20124 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 3, 12:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Creek, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Lincoln and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 9 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 9, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cherokee and 42 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:42 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Kay, Lincoln, Logan and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | LeFlore | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 11 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Garfield, Grant and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 19 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Harmon | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Ottawa, Sequoyah | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Creek, Custer and 19 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 11, 12:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| Dec 19, 7:36 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 14 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dewey County12
- Blaine County11
- Custer County11
- Major County11
- Garfield County10
- Greer County10
- Jackson County10
- Kiowa County10
- Washita County10
- Harmon County9
- Kingfisher County9
- Grant County9
- Kay County9
- Lincoln County9
- Logan County9
- Noble County9
- Osage County9
- Pawnee County9
- Payne County9
- Alfalfa County9
- Beckham County8
- Caddo County8
- Canadian County8
- Comanche County8
- Ellis County8
- Roger Mills County8
- Tillman County8
- Creek County8
- Delaware County8
- Cotton County7
- Grady County7
- Woodward County7
- Tulsa County7
- Wagoner County7
- Washington County7
- Cherokee County7
- Ottawa County7
- Woods County7
- Oklahoma County7
- Stephens County6
37 more counties
- Mayes County6
- Nowata County6
- Okfuskee County6
- Rogers County6
- Adair County6
- Beaver County6
- Harper County6
- Cleveland County6
- McClain County6
- Garvin County5
- Craig County5
- McIntosh County5
- Muskogee County5
- Okmulgee County5
- LeFlore County5
- Sequoyah County5
- Pottawatomie County5
- Jefferson County4
- Haskell County4
- Latimer County4
- Pittsburg County4
- McCurtain County4
- Seminole County4
- Atoka County3
- Bryan County3
- Carter County3
- Love County3
- Marshall County3
- Murray County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Choctaw County3
- Pushmataha County3
- Hughes County3
- Johnston County2
- Texas County2
- Coal County2
- Cimarron County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Rebuilt daily.