Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2020
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20201 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County2
- Cherokee County2
- Craig County2
- Delaware County2
- Mayes County2
- Ottawa County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Coal County1
- Creek County1
- Haskell County1
- Hughes County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McIntosh County1
- Muskogee County1
- Nowata County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Osage County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Rogers County1
- Seminole County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- McCurtain 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.