Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2016
8 tornado watches in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20161 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 8, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| May 22, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 9 hr |
| May 23, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 9 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Texas and 2 more | 9 hr |
| May 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble and 2 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton and 19 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beckham County4
- Ellis County4
- Harper County4
- Roger Mills County4
- Woods County4
- Woodward County4
- Alfalfa County3
- Custer County3
- Dewey County3
- Garfield County3
- Grant County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Jackson County3
- Kay County3
- Kiowa County3
- Major County3
- Noble County3
- Tillman County3
- Washita County3
- Beaver County3
- Blaine County2
- Caddo County2
- Cleveland County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
- Garvin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Kingfisher County2
- McClain County2
- Stephens County2
- McCurtain County2
- Osage County2
- Pawnee County2
- Texas County2
- Canadian County1
- Grady County1
- Logan County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Atoka County1
25 more counties
- Bryan County1
- Carter County1
- Choctaw County1
- Coal County1
- Creek County1
- Haskell County1
- Hughes County1
- Johnston County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- Lincoln County1
- Love County1
- McIntosh County1
- Marshall County1
- Murray County1
- Muskogee County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Seminole County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Tulsa 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. Rebuilt daily.