Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2018
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20181 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alfalfa County2
- Beaver County2
- Beckham County2
- Blaine County2
- Custer County2
- Dewey County2
- Ellis County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Greer County2
- Harper County2
- Kiowa County2
- Major County2
- Roger Mills County2
- Washita County2
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Comanche County1
- Cotton County1
- Garvin County1
- Grady County1
- Harmon County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Kay County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Noble County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Payne County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Stephens County1
- Tillman County1
- Adair County1
- Atoka County1
34 more counties
- Bryan County1
- Carter County1
- Cherokee County1
- Choctaw County1
- Coal County1
- Craig County1
- Creek County1
- Delaware County1
- Haskell County1
- Hughes County1
- Johnston County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- Love County1
- McIntosh County1
- Marshall County1
- Mayes County1
- Murray County1
- Muskogee County1
- Nowata County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Rogers County1
- Seminole County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington 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.