Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, May 1998
21 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 21
- Busiest day
- May 21, 19985 severe thunderstorm 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 2, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 5 hr |
| May 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dunklin | 7 hr |
| May 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Carroll, Chariton, Clark, Knox and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Barton, Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 8 more | 4 hr |
| May 20, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atchison, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll, Chariton and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 11:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Cole, Crawford, Franklin and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, Stoddard | 5 hr |
| May 21, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Cole and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Clark, Grundy, Knox, Lewis, Linn and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Pike, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis | 5 hr |
| May 23, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Knox, Mercer and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Madison and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sullivan County7
- Gentry County7
- Mississippi County6
- Putnam County6
- Mercer County6
- Bollinger County5
- Cape Girardeau County5
- Crawford County5
- Gasconade County5
- Iron County5
- Lincoln County5
- Madison County5
- Perry County5
- Saint Charles County5
- Sainte Genevieve County5
- Saint Francois County5
- Saint Louis County5
- Warren County5
- Washington County5
- City of Saint Louis5
- Adair County5
- Holt County5
- Atchison County5
- Grundy County5
- Harrison County5
- Nodaway County5
- Worth County5
- Cole County5
- Butler County4
- Carter County4
- Dent County4
- Franklin County4
- Jefferson County4
- Phelps County4
- Reynolds County4
- Scott County4
- Shannon County4
- Stoddard County4
- Texas County4
- Wayne County4
70 more counties
- Wright County4
- Linn County4
- Macon County4
- Pike County4
- Ralls County4
- Schuyler County4
- Andrew County4
- Buchanan County4
- Camden County4
- Daviess County4
- DeKalb County4
- Callaway County4
- Maries County4
- Osage County4
- Miller County4
- Douglas County3
- New Madrid County3
- Ripley County3
- Audrain County3
- Carroll County3
- Knox County3
- Marion County3
- Monroe County3
- Scotland County3
- Shelby County3
- Caldwell County3
- Clinton County3
- Hickory County3
- Livingston County3
- Moniteau County3
- Montgomery County3
- Dallas County3
- Laclede County3
- Pulaski County3
- Howell County2
- Chariton County2
- Clark County2
- Lewis County2
- Randolph County2
- Barton County2
- Bates County2
- Benton County2
- Cedar County2
- Henry County2
- Pettis County2
- Ray County2
- St. Clair County2
- Vernon County2
- Boone County2
- Cooper County2
- Morgan County2
- Polk County2
- Webster County2
- Oregon County1
- Ozark County1
- Dunklin County1
- Cass County1
- Clay County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Platte County1
- Howard County1
- Saline County1
- Pemiscot County1
- Christian County1
- Dade County1
- Greene County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence 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.