Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, May 1997
10 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 18, 19973 severe thunderstorm watches
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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 2, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Benton, Callaway, Camden, Carter, Cedar and 44 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Nodaway and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Platte | 6 hr |
| May 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Callaway, Camden, Carter and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 23 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Cooper, Howard and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Buchanan County5
- Platte County5
- DeKalb County4
- Gentry County4
- Holt County4
- Cass County4
- Chariton County4
- Clinton County4
- Jackson County4
- Lafayette County4
- Macon County4
- Benton County3
- Callaway County3
- Cooper County3
- Moniteau County3
- Morgan County3
- Pettis County3
- St. Clair County3
- Andrew County3
- Nodaway County3
- Worth County3
- Caldwell County3
- Carroll County3
- Clay County3
- Daviess County3
- Knox County3
- Linn County3
- Livingston County3
- Ray County3
- Bates County3
- Johnson County3
- Camden County2
- Carter County2
- Cedar County2
- Cole County2
- Crawford County2
- Dade County2
- Dallas County2
- Dent County2
- Franklin County2
63 more counties
- Gasconade County2
- Greene County2
- Hickory County2
- Laclede County2
- Lawrence County2
- Maries County2
- Miller County2
- Osage County2
- Phelps County2
- Polk County2
- Pulaski County2
- Reynolds County2
- Shannon County2
- Texas County2
- Warren County2
- Webster County2
- Wright County2
- Atchison County2
- Adair County2
- Grundy County2
- Harrison County2
- Mercer County2
- Sullivan County2
- Henry County2
- Saline County2
- Lewis County2
- Randolph County2
- Shelby County2
- Barry County1
- Christian County1
- Douglas County1
- Howell County1
- Iron County1
- Jefferson County1
- McDonald County1
- Newton County1
- Oregon County1
- Ozark County1
- Saint Charles County1
- Saint Francois County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Stone County1
- Taney County1
- Washington County1
- City of Saint Louis1
- Clark County1
- Putnam County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scotland County1
- Barton County1
- Jasper County1
- Vernon County1
- Audrain County1
- Boone County1
- Howard County1
- Lincoln County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Ralls County1
- Dunklin County1
- Pemiscot 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.