Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2021
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20211 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 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Ellis, Grant, Harper, Major and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan and 66 more | 9 hr |
| May 30, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County2
- Atoka County2
- Bryan County2
- Carter County2
- Cherokee County2
- Choctaw County2
- Coal County2
- Haskell County2
- Hughes County2
- Johnston County2
- Latimer County2
- LeFlore County2
- Love County2
- McIntosh County2
- Marshall County2
- Murray County2
- Muskogee County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Pittsburg County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Pushmataha County2
- Seminole County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Alfalfa County2
- Ellis County2
- Grant County2
- Major County2
- Texas County2
- Woods County2
- Woodward County2
- Beaver County1
- Harper County1
- Beckham County1
- Blaine County1
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Comanche County1
- Cotton County1
36 more counties
- Craig County1
- Creek County1
- Custer County1
- Delaware County1
- Dewey County1
- Garfield County1
- Garvin County1
- Grady County1
- Greer County1
- Harmon County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Kay County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Mayes County1
- Noble County1
- Nowata County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Payne County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Roger Mills County1
- Rogers County1
- Stephens County1
- Tillman County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- Washita County1
- Cimarron 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. Rebuilt daily.