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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2022

19 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
May5 tornado watches
Busiest day
December 13, 20225 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
Feb 21, 8:49 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 6 more7 hr
Mar 6, 2:18 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCLeFlore, McCurtain6 hr
Mar 29, 11:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 29 more8 hr
Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
Apr 11, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 2 more7 hr
Apr 23, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCaddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Creek and 22 more6 hr
Apr 29, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCaddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Creek and 22 more3 hr
May 2, 2:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 45 more8 hr
May 2, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah7 hr
May 4, 1:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more8 hr
May 4, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Dewey, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 4 more8 hr
May 4, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cherokee and 31 more6 hr
Nov 4, 1:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 31 more7 hr
Nov 4, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain6 hr
Dec 12, 8:25 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Texas4 hr
Dec 12, 9:16 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCEllis, Harper, Woods, Woodward5 hr
Dec 12, 9:54 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton and 13 more6 hr
Dec 13, 3:58 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Hughes and 9 more7 hr
Dec 13, 9:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha8 hr

By county

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

36 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. December 13, 20225tornado watches
  2. March 30, 20222tornado watches
  3. May 2, 20222tornado watches
  4. May 4, 20222tornado watches
  5. November 4, 20222tornado watches
  6. February 22, 20221tornado watches
  7. March 6, 20221tornado watches
  8. April 11, 20221tornado watches
  9. April 23, 20221tornado watches
  10. April 29, 20221tornado watches
  11. May 5, 20221tornado 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.