Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2017
8 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 18, 20172 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County4
- Stephens County4
- Adair County4
- Cherokee County4
- Haskell County4
- Latimer County4
- LeFlore County4
- McIntosh County4
- Muskogee County4
- Pittsburg County4
- Sequoyah County4
- Caddo County3
- Cotton County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Jackson County3
- Kiowa County3
- Tillman County3
- Carter County3
- Love County3
- Murray County3
- Coal County3
- Delaware County3
- Hughes County3
- Johnston County3
- Marshall County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Choctaw County3
- Pushmataha County3
- Comanche County2
- Grady County2
- Beckham County2
- Blaine County2
- Custer County2
- Dewey County2
- Ellis County2
- Harper County2
- Major County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Washita County2
34 more counties
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Alfalfa County2
- Cleveland County2
- Garvin County2
- Grant County2
- Kay County2
- Logan County2
- McClain County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Craig County2
- Creek County2
- Lincoln County2
- Mayes County2
- Nowata County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Osage County2
- Ottawa County2
- Pawnee County2
- Payne County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Rogers County2
- Seminole County2
- Tulsa County2
- Wagoner County2
- Washington County2
- Atoka County2
- Bryan County2
- Beaver County1
- Canadian County1
- Garfield County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Noble County1
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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.