Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2023
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20231 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 4, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Love and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 25 more | 10 hr |
| May 11, 11:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carter County2
- Cotton County2
- Jefferson County2
- Love County2
- Stephens County2
- Tillman County2
- Harmon County1
- Jackson County1
- Atoka County1
- Caddo County1
- Canadian County1
- Cleveland County1
- Coal County1
- Comanche County1
- Garfield County1
- Garvin County1
- Grady County1
- Hughes County1
- Johnston County1
- Kingfisher County1
- Kiowa County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- McClain County1
- Marshall County1
- Murray County1
- Noble County1
- Oklahoma County1
- Payne County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Seminole County1
- Washita County1
- Haskell County1
- Latimer County1
- LeFlore County1
- Pittsburg 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.