Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2012
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20122 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County1
- Cherokee County1
- Craig County1
- Delaware County1
- Garfield County1
- Grant County1
- Kay County1
- Mayes County1
- Noble County1
- Nowata County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rogers County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Carter County1
- Cleveland County1
- Comanche County1
- Cotton County1
- Creek County1
- Garvin County1
- Grady County1
- Hughes County1
- Jefferson County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- Love County1
- McClain County1
- Murray County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Payne County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Pottawatomie County1
4 more counties
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.