Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, April 2016
6 tornado watches in April 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 April 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- April 29, 20162 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 15, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 9 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 47 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 27 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Texas County2
- Alfalfa County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Kay County2
- Major County2
- Noble County2
- Atoka County2
- Bryan County2
- Caddo County2
- Canadian County2
- Carter County2
- Cleveland County2
- Coal County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
- Garvin County2
- Grady County2
- Hughes County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnston County2
- Kiowa County2
- Love County2
- McClain County2
- McIntosh County2
- Marshall County2
- Murray County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Seminole County2
- Stephens County2
- Tillman County2
- Cimarron County1
- Beaver County1
- Woods County1
22 more counties
- Woodward County1
- Blaine County1
- Creek County1
- Custer County1
- Dewey County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- Muskogee County1
- Nowata County1
- Osage County1
- Pawnee County1
- Payne County1
- Rogers County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- Washita County1
- McCurtain County1
- Choctaw County1
- Latimer County1
- Pushmataha 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.