Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, April 2026
13 tornado watches in April 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20263 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 1, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 41 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 24, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Hughes and 8 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Garvin County7
- Jefferson County7
- Payne County7
- Stephens County7
- Carter County6
- Garfield County6
- Grady County6
- Grant County6
- Kay County6
- Love County6
- McClain County6
- Murray County6
- Noble County6
- Osage County6
- Pawnee County6
- Alfalfa County5
- Blaine County5
- Caddo County5
- Cleveland County5
- Comanche County5
- Cotton County5
- Creek County5
- Logan County5
- Major County5
- Nowata County5
- Oklahoma County5
- Washington County5
- Beckham County4
- Canadian County4
- Custer County4
- Dewey County4
- Kingfisher County4
- Lincoln County4
- Pottawatomie County4
- Tillman County4
- Washita County4
- Atoka County4
- Bryan County4
- Choctaw County4
- Coal County4
34 more counties
- Hughes County4
- Johnston County4
- Latimer County4
- LeFlore County4
- Marshall County4
- Pittsburg County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Pushmataha County4
- McCurtain County4
- Craig County3
- Ellis County3
- Greer County3
- Harmon County3
- Jackson County3
- Kiowa County3
- Roger Mills County3
- Rogers County3
- Tulsa County3
- Woods County3
- Woodward County3
- Haskell County3
- Seminole County3
- Sequoyah County3
- Harper County2
- Adair County2
- Cherokee County2
- Delaware County2
- McIntosh County2
- Mayes County2
- Muskogee County2
- Okfuskee County2
- Okmulgee County2
- Ottawa County2
- Wagoner County2
Nearby
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.