Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, April 2012
13 tornado watches in April 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 April 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- April 14, 20124 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Blaine County8
- Dewey County8
- Major County8
- Alfalfa County7
- Custer County7
- Greer County7
- Jackson County7
- Kiowa County7
- Washita County7
- Beckham County6
- Harmon County6
- Ellis County5
- Woods County5
- Woodward County5
- Caddo County5
- Roger Mills County5
- Garfield County5
- Grant County5
- Kay County5
- Kingfisher County5
- Lincoln County5
- Logan County5
- Noble County5
- Osage County5
- Pawnee County5
- Payne County5
- Harper County4
- Comanche County4
- Tillman County4
- Canadian County4
- Cleveland County4
- Creek County4
- Grady County4
- McClain County4
- Oklahoma County4
- Tulsa County4
- Washington County4
- Cotton County3
- Beaver County3
- Nowata County3
21 more counties
- Pottawatomie County3
- Rogers County3
- Wagoner County3
- Craig County2
- Delaware County2
- Mayes County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Ottawa County2
- Seminole County2
- Stephens County2
- Garvin County2
- McCurtain County1
- Cimarron County1
- Texas County1
- Cherokee County1
- McIntosh County1
- Muskogee County1
- Hughes County1
- LeFlore County1
- Jefferson 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.