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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2013

23 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
23
Busiest month
May15 tornado watches
Busiest day
January 29, 20134 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 4:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 27 more7 hr
Jan 29, 7:26 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 10 more10 hr
Jan 29, 10:59 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 13 more8 hr
Jan 29, 5:37 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
Apr 15, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 27 more6 hr
Apr 17, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland and 45 more10 hr
Apr 17, 10:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Coal and 28 more7 hr
May 15, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBryan, Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 1 more8 hr
May 18, 3:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 32 more8 hr
May 19, 2:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 50 more9 hr
May 19, 10:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 19 more5 hr
May 20, 1:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 49 more9 hr
May 20, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Haskell and 10 more6 hr
May 21, 10:26 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBryan, Choctaw, Love, Marshall10 hr
May 21, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
May 23, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Roger Mills8 hr
May 29, 12:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche and 16 more11 hr
May 29, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 33 more7 hr
May 30, 12:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 38 more10 hr
May 30, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 5 more8 hr
May 30, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah7 hr
May 31, 3:27 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 36 more9 hr
May 31, 11:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 8 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

36 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 29, 20134tornado watches
  2. May 21, 20133tornado watches
  3. May 20, 20132tornado watches
  4. May 29, 20132tornado watches
  5. May 30, 20132tornado watches
  6. May 31, 20132tornado watches
  7. April 15, 20131tornado watches
  8. April 17, 20131tornado watches
  9. April 18, 20131tornado watches
  10. May 15, 20131tornado watches
  11. May 18, 20131tornado watches
  12. May 19, 20131tornado watches

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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.