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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2023

21 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
March6 tornado watches
Busiest day
January 2, 20232 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
Jan 2, 1:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
Jan 2, 3:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 32 more6 hr
Feb 26, 3:33 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche and 16 more6 hr
Feb 26, 7:32 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 45 more5 hr
Mar 1, 3:31 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain8 hr
Mar 2, 2:58 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 3 more9 hr
Mar 16, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton and 12 more6 hr
Mar 16, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain7 hr
Mar 24, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain5 hr
Mar 31, 1:36 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcCurtain7 hr
Apr 2, 2:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 9 more7 hr
Apr 5, 4:54 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain and 3 more6 hr
Apr 19, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCaddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 17 more6 hr
Apr 19, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCreek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa and 1 more5 hr
May 4, 2:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCarter, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Love and 2 more6 hr
May 11, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 25 more10 hr
May 11, 11:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHaskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha3 hr
Jun 15, 2:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan and 39 more6 hr
Jun 17, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Cimarron and 13 more6 hr
Jun 21, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeaver, Beckham, Cimarron, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 3 more7 hr
Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 11 more6 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. January 2, 20232tornado watches
  2. March 16, 20232tornado watches
  3. April 19, 20232tornado watches
  4. February 26, 20231tornado watches
  5. February 27, 20231tornado watches
  6. March 1, 20231tornado watches
  7. March 2, 20231tornado watches
  8. March 24, 20231tornado watches
  9. March 31, 20231tornado watches
  10. April 2, 20231tornado watches
  11. April 5, 20231tornado watches
  12. May 4, 20231tornado watches

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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.