Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2022
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2022
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20222 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 2, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 45 more | 8 hr |
| May 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 7 hr |
| May 4, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| May 4, 9:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cherokee and 31 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Caddo County3
- Carter County3
- Cleveland County3
- Comanche County3
- Cotton County3
- Garvin County3
- Grady County3
- Hughes County3
- Jefferson County3
- McClain County3
- McIntosh County3
- Murray County3
- Muskogee County3
- Okfuskee County3
- Okmulgee County3
- Pittsburg County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Pottawatomie County3
- Seminole County3
- Stephens County3
- Wagoner County3
- Blaine County2
- Canadian County2
- Cherokee County2
- Creek County2
- Custer County2
- Dewey County2
- Kingfisher County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Payne County2
- Tulsa County2
- Washita County2
- Adair County2
- Haskell County2
- Latimer County2
- LeFlore County2
- Sequoyah County2
- Coal County2
30 more counties
- Johnston County2
- Love County2
- Marshall County2
- Jackson County2
- Kiowa County2
- Tillman County2
- Alfalfa County1
- Craig County1
- Delaware County1
- Garfield County1
- Grant County1
- Kay County1
- Major County1
- Mayes County1
- Noble County1
- Nowata County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Rogers County1
- Washington County1
- Woods County1
- Woodward County1
- Beckham County1
- Greer County1
- Harmon County1
- Roger Mills County1
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Pushmataha 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.