Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2024
36 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 36
- Busiest month
- April12 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 26, 20243 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 9:56 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 14, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Apr 1, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 47 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 8 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 4 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:33 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 10:12 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:27 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 27 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cherokee and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:03 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Coal, Delaware, Haskell and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens, Tillman | 93 min |
| May 1, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 6, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 45 more | 12 hr |
| May 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 25 more | 9 hr |
| May 8, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 19 more | 8 hr |
| May 21, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Greer, Harmon and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo and 45 more | 11 hr |
| May 25, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Delaware, Haskell and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Delaware, Ottawa | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 8 hr |
| Oct 30, 2:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 30, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 20 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 3, 1:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 3, 2:02 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 3, 7:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 4, 10:52 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 34 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 4, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 6 hr |
| Nov 8, 1:47 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Stephens and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 18, 2:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton and 16 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Muskogee County15
- Delaware County14
- McIntosh County14
- Okmulgee County14
- Pittsburg County14
- Cherokee County13
- Haskell County13
- Hughes County13
- Mayes County13
- Okfuskee County13
- Ottawa County13
- Sequoyah County13
- Wagoner County13
- LeFlore County12
- Pushmataha County12
- Adair County12
- Atoka County12
- Carter County12
- Coal County12
- Jefferson County12
- Latimer County12
- Rogers County12
- Stephens County12
- Tulsa County12
- Bryan County11
- Craig County11
- Creek County11
- Garvin County11
- Love County11
- Murray County11
- Pontotoc County11
- Pottawatomie County11
- Seminole County11
- Cotton County11
- Tillman County11
- Choctaw County10
- Cleveland County10
- Johnston County10
- Lincoln County10
- McClain County10
37 more counties
- Marshall County10
- Grady County9
- Oklahoma County9
- Pawnee County9
- McCurtain County8
- Caddo County8
- Canadian County8
- Comanche County8
- Kiowa County8
- Nowata County8
- Osage County8
- Payne County8
- Washington County8
- Washita County8
- Greer County8
- Harmon County8
- Jackson County8
- Kingfisher County7
- Logan County7
- Woodward County7
- Blaine County6
- Garfield County6
- Grant County6
- Kay County6
- Noble County6
- Woods County6
- Beckham County6
- Custer County6
- Roger Mills County6
- Ellis County5
- Alfalfa County5
- Dewey County5
- Major County5
- Beaver County4
- Harper County3
- Cimarron County2
- Texas County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.