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Tornado Warnings in Missouri, 1997

32 tornado warnings in 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
32
Busiest month
April10 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 20, 19976 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 1, 4:10 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHCarter20 min
Mar 1, 5:24 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHNew Madrid36 min
Mar 1, 5:56 PM CSTTornado WarningPAHMississippi, New Madrid49 min
Apr 20, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFSt. Clair34 min
Apr 20, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBenton51 min
Apr 20, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFHickory47 min
Apr 20, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFCamden47 min
Apr 20, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBarton, Dade50 min
Apr 20, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFPulaski47 min
Apr 20, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFGreene, Lawrence49 min
Apr 20, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDallas49 min
Apr 20, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFPhelps, Texas50 min
Apr 20, 8:20 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFDent50 min
May 17, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXCrawford26 min
May 25, 10:44 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBenton36 min
May 26, 12:08 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFSt. Clair52 min
May 26, 12:58 AM CDTTornado WarningSGFSt. Clair47 min
May 26, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHStoddard31 min
May 26, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFNewton52 min
May 26, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFNewton48 min
May 26, 10:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFBarry34 min
May 26, 11:12 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFStone48 min
Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLSXSaint Francois45 min
Jun 13, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHScott31 min
Jun 17, 7:36 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler, Stoddard54 min
Jul 3, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFShannon51 min
Jul 3, 10:46 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHButler44 min
Jul 8, 6:31 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHWayne44 min
Jul 14, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHCape Girardeau38 min
Jul 16, 12:52 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHNew Madrid38 min
Jul 16, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHNew Madrid17 min
Jul 23, 10:29 AM CDTTornado WarningEAXAndrew, Holt, Nodaway46 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.

  1. April 20, 19976tornado warnings
  2. April 21, 19974tornado warnings
  3. May 26, 19974tornado warnings
  4. May 27, 19974tornado warnings
  5. March 1, 19973tornado warnings
  6. July 4, 19972tornado warnings
  7. July 16, 19972tornado warnings
  8. May 18, 19971tornado warnings
  9. June 13, 19971tornado warnings
  10. June 14, 19971tornado warnings
  11. June 18, 19971tornado warnings
  12. July 8, 19971tornado 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.