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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2020
14 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- April5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 10, 20202 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 10, 10:42 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 38 more | 10 hr |
| Jan 10, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 11 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Greer and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 22, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Coal, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 21 more | 9 hr |
| May 16, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 14, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa and 2 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County6
- Cherokee County6
- Sequoyah County6
- McCurtain County6
- Choctaw County5
- Craig County5
- Delaware County5
- Latimer County5
- Mayes County5
- Ottawa County5
- Pittsburg County5
- Pushmataha County5
- Carter County4
- Coal County4
- Haskell County4
- LeFlore County4
- Love County4
- McIntosh County4
- Muskogee County4
- Wagoner County4
- Atoka County3
- Bryan County3
- Creek County3
- Hughes County3
- Johnston County3
- Marshall County3
- Nowata County3
- Okfuskee County3
- Okmulgee County3
- Osage County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Rogers County3
- Tulsa County3
- Washington County3
- Garvin County2
- Murray County2
- Seminole County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.