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Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1988

10 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
10
Busiest month
November6 tornado warnings
Busiest day
November 15, 19884 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 4:46 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXSaline29 min
Apr 5, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFJasper38 min
Jul 16, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Greene, Webster35 min
Jul 25, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCape Girardeau, Scott20 min
Nov 9, 5:02 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFBarton28 min
Nov 15, 5:03 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXPettis27 min
Nov 15, 5:12 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Greene33 min
Nov 15, 5:30 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Webster30 min
Nov 15, 5:38 PM CSTTornado WarningEAXCooper37 min
Nov 15, 8:34 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXSaint Charles41 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19871989

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. Rebuilt daily.