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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2016

22 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
22
Busiest month
May8 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 13, 20162 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
Mar 8, 12:41 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain5 hr
Mar 13, 12:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, LeFlore and 10 more6 hr
Mar 13, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain5 hr
Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain7 hr
Apr 15, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCimarron, Texas7 hr
Apr 16, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas9 hr
Apr 24, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 2 more9 hr
Apr 26, 2:32 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 47 more9 hr
Apr 29, 1:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
Apr 29, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 27 more8 hr
May 8, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more6 hr
May 9, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more7 hr
May 9, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
May 22, 2:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas9 hr
May 23, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 9 more8 hr
May 24, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Texas and 2 more9 hr
May 25, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 2 more9 hr
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton and 19 more10 hr
Jun 13, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCimarron, Texas8 hr
Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Cimarron, Texas6 hr
Jun 14, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCComanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more4 hr
Oct 4, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 25 more7 hr

By county

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

31 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 13, 20162tornado watches
  2. April 29, 20162tornado watches
  3. June 13, 20162tornado watches
  4. March 8, 20161tornado watches
  5. March 30, 20161tornado watches
  6. April 15, 20161tornado watches
  7. April 16, 20161tornado watches
  8. April 24, 20161tornado watches
  9. April 26, 20161tornado watches
  10. May 8, 20161tornado watches
  11. May 9, 20161tornado watches
  12. May 10, 20161tornado watches

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.