Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2024
11 tornado watches in May 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 May 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20242 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Delaware County5
- Ottawa County5
- Cotton County4
- Jefferson County4
- Stephens County4
- Tillman County4
- Beckham County4
- Greer County4
- Harmon County4
- Jackson County4
- Roger Mills County4
- Okfuskee County4
- Okmulgee County4
- Rogers County4
- Tulsa County4
- Wagoner County4
- Adair County4
- Cherokee County4
- Craig County4
- Mayes County4
- Muskogee County4
- Sequoyah County4
- Ellis County3
- Woodward County3
- Carter County3
- Comanche County3
- Creek County3
- Custer County3
- Garvin County3
- Kiowa County3
- Murray County3
- Nowata County3
- Osage County3
- Pawnee County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Pottawatomie County3
- Seminole County3
- Washington County3
- Washita County3
- Atoka County3
35 more counties
- Bryan County3
- Choctaw County3
- Coal County3
- Haskell County3
- Hughes County3
- Latimer County3
- LeFlore County3
- McCurtain County3
- McIntosh County3
- Pittsburg County3
- Pushmataha County3
- Alfalfa County2
- Blaine County2
- Caddo County2
- Canadian County2
- Cleveland County2
- Dewey County2
- Garfield County2
- Grady County2
- Grant County2
- Kay County2
- Kingfisher County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- McClain County2
- Major County2
- Noble County2
- Oklahoma County2
- Payne County2
- Woods County2
- Johnston County2
- Love County2
- Marshall County2
- Beaver County1
- Harper County1
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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.