Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2017
18 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 18
- Busiest month
- May8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20172 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 3:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:04 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 6, 6:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Canadian, Carter and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, LeFlore, McCurtain, Sequoyah | 8 hr |
| Apr 21, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell and 11 more | 8 hr |
| May 10, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer, Harmon and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Dewey and 12 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 1:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 19 more | 11 hr |
| May 19, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Grant, Kay | 4 hr |
| May 19, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 40 more | 10 hr |
| Oct 21, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 21, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 33 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- LeFlore County9
- Pittsburg County9
- Adair County8
- Carter County8
- Haskell County8
- Hughes County8
- Latimer County8
- Love County8
- McIntosh County8
- Murray County8
- Sequoyah County8
- Cherokee County7
- Muskogee County7
- Choctaw County7
- Coal County7
- Johnston County7
- Marshall County7
- Pontotoc County7
- Pushmataha County7
- Jefferson County7
- Stephens County7
- Creek County6
- Delaware County6
- Okmulgee County6
- Pawnee County6
- Atoka County6
- Bryan County6
- Craig County5
- Mayes County5
- Nowata County5
- Osage County5
- Ottawa County5
- Rogers County5
- Tulsa County5
- Wagoner County5
- Washington County5
- Kay County5
- Lincoln County5
- Okfuskee County5
- Payne County5
35 more counties
- Pottawatomie County5
- Seminole County5
- Garvin County5
- Grady County5
- McClain County5
- Caddo County5
- Cotton County5
- Greer County5
- Harmon County5
- Jackson County5
- Kiowa County5
- Tillman County5
- McCurtain County4
- Noble County4
- Alfalfa County4
- Blaine County4
- Cleveland County4
- Grant County4
- Logan County4
- Major County4
- Oklahoma County4
- Beckham County4
- Comanche County4
- Washita County4
- Canadian County3
- Garfield County3
- Harper County3
- Kingfisher County3
- Woods County3
- Woodward County3
- Custer County3
- Dewey County3
- Ellis County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Beaver County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.