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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2021

20 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
20
Busiest month
October8 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 29, 20212 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 5 more7 hr
Apr 7, 12:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLeFlore, McCurtain7 hr
Apr 23, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCComanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson and 2 more5 hr
Apr 28, 3:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Coal, Cotton and 23 more7 hr
Apr 28, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Creek, Haskell, Latimer and 7 more6 hr
Apr 29, 2:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain6 hr
May 3, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 18 more7 hr
May 26, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Ellis, Grant, Harper, Major and 3 more7 hr
May 27, 11:58 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan and 66 more9 hr
May 30, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCimarron, Texas7 hr
Oct 10, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 33 more7 hr
Oct 10, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Marshall and 1 more8 hr
Oct 10, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek, Delaware and 19 more5 hr
Oct 10, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain5 hr
Oct 12, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 18 more5 hr
Oct 12, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 19 more7 hr
Oct 24, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 9 more7 hr
Oct 26, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 6 more7 hr
Dec 10, 6:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain4 hr
Dec 10, 6:51 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah4 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

37 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 29, 20212tornado watches
  2. October 10, 20212tornado watches
  3. October 11, 20212tornado watches
  4. December 11, 20212tornado watches
  5. March 17, 20211tornado watches
  6. April 7, 20211tornado watches
  7. April 23, 20211tornado watches
  8. April 28, 20211tornado watches
  9. May 3, 20211tornado watches
  10. May 26, 20211tornado watches
  11. May 27, 20211tornado watches
  12. May 30, 20211tornado watches

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. Rebuilt daily.