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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2018
13 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- April3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 13, 20182 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, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:01 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 34 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| May 2, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 32 more | 9 hr |
| May 2, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 11 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 9, 8:48 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 9 hr |
| Nov 30, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 30, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County6
- McCurtain County6
- Sequoyah County6
- Choctaw County5
- Haskell County5
- Latimer County5
- LeFlore County5
- Pushmataha County5
- Cherokee County5
- Craig County5
- Delaware County5
- Mayes County5
- Ottawa County5
- Atoka County4
- Bryan County4
- Coal County4
- Creek County4
- Hughes County4
- Johnston County4
- Lincoln County4
- McIntosh County4
- Muskogee County4
- Nowata County4
- Okfuskee County4
- Okmulgee County4
- Osage County4
- Pawnee County4
- Payne County4
- Pittsburg County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Rogers County4
- Seminole County4
- Tulsa County4
- Wagoner County4
- Washington County4
- Carter County3
- Garvin County3
- Love County3
- Marshall County3
35 more counties
- Murray County3
- Noble County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Beaver County2
- Beckham County2
- Blaine County2
- Caddo County2
- Canadian County2
- Cleveland County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
- Custer County2
- Dewey County2
- Ellis County2
- Garfield County2
- Grady County2
- Grant County2
- Greer County2
- Harper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Kay County2
- Kingfisher County2
- Kiowa County2
- Logan County2
- McClain County2
- Major County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Stephens County2
- Tillman County2
- Washita County2
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Harmon County1
- Jackson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.