Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, April 2023
4 tornado watches in April 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 April 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 19, 20232 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carter County2
- Comanche County2
- Cotton County2
- Garvin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Love County2
- Murray County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Stephens County2
- Tillman County2
- Atoka County1
- Bryan County1
- Coal County1
- Johnston County1
- Marshall County1
- Adair County1
- Choctaw County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- McCurtain County1
- Pittsburg County1
- Pushmataha County1
- Sequoyah County1
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Grady County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Payne County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Seminole County1
- Creek County1
- Okfuskee County1
- Okmulgee County1
4 more counties
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.