Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2013
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2013
15 tornado watches in May 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 May 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 15
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20133 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 15, 6:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 32 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 50 more | 9 hr |
| May 19, 10:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 49 more | 9 hr |
| May 20, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Haskell and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 10:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw, Love, Marshall | 10 hr |
| May 21, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| May 23, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Roger Mills | 8 hr |
| May 29, 12:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche and 16 more | 11 hr |
| May 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 38 more | 10 hr |
| May 30, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 5 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 7 hr |
| May 31, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 36 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County8
- Bryan County7
- Carter County7
- Love County7
- Marshall County7
- Lincoln County7
- Logan County7
- Noble County7
- Payne County7
- Haskell County7
- Johnston County6
- Murray County6
- Caddo County6
- Canadian County6
- Cleveland County6
- Comanche County6
- Cotton County6
- Garvin County6
- Grady County6
- Kay County6
- Kingfisher County6
- McClain County6
- Oklahoma County6
- Pottawatomie County6
- Stephens County6
- Adair County6
- Craig County6
- Creek County6
- Mayes County6
- Nowata County6
- Okfuskee County6
- Osage County6
- Ottawa County6
- Pawnee County6
- Rogers County6
- Sequoyah County6
- Tulsa County6
- Washington County6
- Atoka County5
- Cherokee County5
36 more counties
- Choctaw County5
- Delaware County5
- Hughes County5
- Latimer County5
- LeFlore County5
- McIntosh County5
- Okmulgee County5
- Pittsburg County5
- Pontotoc County5
- Seminole County5
- Wagoner County5
- Garfield County4
- Tillman County4
- Coal County4
- Muskogee County4
- Pushmataha County4
- Beckham County3
- Blaine County3
- Grant County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Jackson County3
- Roger Mills County3
- McCurtain County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Beaver County2
- Custer County2
- Dewey County2
- Ellis County2
- Harper County2
- Kiowa County2
- Major County2
- Washita County2
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Texas County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.