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Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, May 2025
8 tornado watches in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20252 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 16, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, LeFlore, Sequoyah | 8 hr |
| May 17, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 37 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 26 more | 8 hr |
| May 19, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 50 more | 9 hr |
| May 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Custer and 7 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 9 hr |
| May 28, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Caddo County4
- Canadian County4
- Comanche County4
- Grady County4
- Stephens County4
- Adair County3
- LeFlore County3
- Sequoyah County3
- Atoka County3
- Beckham County3
- Blaine County3
- Bryan County3
- Choctaw County3
- Cleveland County3
- Coal County3
- Cotton County3
- Custer County3
- Dewey County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Johnston County3
- Kingfisher County3
- Kiowa County3
- Latimer County3
- Logan County3
- Love County3
- McClain County3
- Marshall County3
- Oklahoma County3
- Pittsburg County3
- Pushmataha County3
- Roger Mills County3
- Tillman County3
- Washita County3
- Carter County2
- Ellis County2
- Garvin County2
- Hughes County2
36 more counties
- Lincoln County2
- Murray County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Pottawatomie County2
- Seminole County2
- Beaver County2
- Garfield County2
- Grant County2
- Cherokee County2
- Delaware County2
- Haskell County2
- Alfalfa County1
- Harper County1
- Major County1
- Woods County1
- Woodward County1
- Craig County1
- Creek County1
- Kay County1
- McIntosh County1
- Mayes County1
- Muskogee County1
- Noble County1
- Nowata County1
- Okmulgee County1
- Osage County1
- Ottawa County1
- Pawnee County1
- Payne County1
- Rogers County1
- Tulsa County1
- Wagoner County1
- Washington County1
- McCurtain County1
- Texas 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.