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Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1996

81 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
81
Busiest month
April34 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 20, 199615 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 5, 4:47 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHButler28 min
Mar 5, 5:54 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHStoddard36 min
Mar 5, 6:19 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHScott41 min
Mar 5, 7:10 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFHowell, Ozark65 min
Mar 5, 7:57 PM CSTTornado WarningSGFHowell, Shannon33 min
Apr 14, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson47 min
Apr 14, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDallas27 min
Apr 14, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFLaclede43 min
Apr 19, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXJefferson42 min
Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Louis48 min
Apr 19, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXJefferson48 min
Apr 19, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXLincoln, Saint Charles64 min
Apr 19, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXWashington32 min
Apr 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSainte Genevieve, Saint Francois50 min
Apr 19, 7:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXIron, Saint Francois56 min
Apr 19, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSainte Genevieve47 min
Apr 19, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSainte Genevieve, Saint Francois50 min
Apr 19, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPerry37 min
Apr 19, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXIron, Reynolds47 min
Apr 19, 8:38 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXMadison52 min
Apr 19, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHPerry35 min
Apr 19, 9:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXReynolds42 min
Apr 19, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHRipley38 min
Apr 19, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler37 min
Apr 19, 10:09 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Wayne51 min
Apr 19, 10:34 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHStoddard56 min
Apr 19, 10:58 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler, Ripley47 min
Apr 19, 11:06 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHNew Madrid69 min
Apr 19, 11:33 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHMississippi57 min
Apr 21, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFNewton39 min
Apr 21, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFPolk51 min
Apr 21, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFNewton66 min
Apr 21, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFChristian, Lawrence, Stone45 min
Apr 21, 11:28 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFWebster, Wright47 min
Apr 22, 12:39 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFTexas36 min
Apr 22, 12:56 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFDent, Shannon49 min
Apr 22, 2:31 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFHowell, Ozark44 min
Apr 22, 3:15 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFOzark45 min
Apr 28, 6:22 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFChristian38 min
May 5, 10:44 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFDallas, Laclede46 min
May 5, 1:36 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHBollinger, Cape Girardeau39 min
May 8, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAtchison59 min
May 25, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXPike53 min
May 26, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBarton, Vernon56 min
May 26, 9:54 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXJohnson36 min
May 26, 10:05 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXLafayette40 min
May 26, 10:19 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCedar, St. Clair56 min
May 26, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFVernon34 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXBates46 min
May 26, 11:38 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBenton, Morgan67 min
May 27, 12:53 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXBoone52 min
May 27, 1:41 AM CDTTornado WarningLSXCallaway34 min
May 27, 3:04 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXMercer46 min
Jun 2, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFVernon58 min
Jun 2, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDade51 min
Jun 5, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXKnox33 min
Jun 5, 11:02 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXGrundy, Harrison43 min
Jun 5, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXGrundy50 min
Jun 10, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Louis29 min
Jun 16, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXAndrew, Buchanan32 min
Jun 16, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXClinton44 min
Jun 16, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXClinton29 min
Jun 16, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton44 min
Jun 16, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton58 min
Jun 23, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXNodaway34 min
Jun 23, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningEAXWorth46 min
Jul 8, 6:20 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFCedar40 min
Jul 8, 6:20 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFHickory40 min
Jul 8, 6:44 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFPolk31 min
Jul 8, 6:53 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFHickory37 min
Jul 8, 7:04 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFBenton, Camden, Morgan56 min
Jul 8, 7:13 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFPolk32 min
Jul 14, 1:15 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott30 min
Jul 14, 1:27 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHNew Madrid33 min
Jul 19, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXJefferson, Saint Louis33 min
Sep 23, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFStone37 min
Sep 26, 7:56 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFOzark, Taney49 min
Dec 23, 10:27 AM CSTTornado WarningLSXCrawford, Washington63 min
Dec 23, 1:40 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXIron, Washington35 min
Dec 23, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXSaint Francois, Washington30 min
Dec 23, 2:38 PM CSTTornado WarningLSXSainte Genevieve37 min

By county

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

22 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 20, 199615tornado warnings
  2. May 27, 199610tornado warnings
  3. April 22, 19968tornado warnings
  4. April 19, 19966tornado warnings
  5. July 8, 19966tornado warnings
  6. June 17, 19964tornado warnings
  7. December 23, 19964tornado warnings
  8. March 6, 19963tornado warnings
  9. April 14, 19963tornado warnings
  10. June 6, 19963tornado warnings
  11. March 5, 19962tornado warnings
  12. May 5, 19962tornado warnings

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.