Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 1998
13 tornado 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest day
- May 6, 19982 tornado 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 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Butler, Carter, Christian, Douglas, Dunklin and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Callaway, Camden, Cass and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Carter, Christian, Douglas, Howell, Lawrence and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Ripley and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Christian, Dade, Douglas, Greene and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| May 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| May 11, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Holt, Nodaway | 6 hr |
| May 15, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Clark and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 21, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Crawford, Dent, Franklin and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway and 30 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Howell, McDonald, Newton, Oregon, Ozark and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barry County4
- Dunklin County4
- Howell County4
- McDonald County4
- Newton County4
- Oregon County4
- Ozark County4
- Pemiscot County4
- Stone County4
- Taney County4
- Callaway County4
- Christian County3
- Douglas County3
- Greene County3
- Lawrence County3
- Shannon County3
- Webster County3
- Cooper County3
- Franklin County3
- Gasconade County3
- Maries County3
- Moniteau County3
- Osage County3
- Saint Charles County3
- Warren County3
- Audrain County3
- Lincoln County3
- Montgomery County3
- Pike County3
- Butler County2
- Carter County2
- Jasper County2
- Mississippi County2
- New Madrid County2
- Ripley County2
- Scott County2
- Stoddard County2
- Wayne County2
- Wright County2
- Barton County2
72 more counties
- Cass County2
- Cole County2
- Crawford County2
- Dade County2
- Dent County2
- Iron County2
- Johnson County2
- Miller County2
- Morgan County2
- Pettis County2
- Phelps County2
- Polk County2
- Texas County2
- Washington County2
- Atchison County2
- Holt County2
- Nodaway County2
- Adair County2
- Boone County2
- Chariton County2
- Howard County2
- Jefferson County2
- Knox County2
- Lewis County2
- Linn County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Ralls County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Shelby County2
- City of Saint Louis2
- Daviess County2
- DeKalb County2
- Bates County1
- Benton County1
- Camden County1
- Cedar County1
- Dallas County1
- Henry County1
- Hickory County1
- Laclede County1
- Pulaski County1
- Reynolds County1
- St. Clair County1
- Vernon County1
- Clark County1
- Putnam County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scotland County1
- Sullivan County1
- Andrew County1
- Gentry County1
- Harrison County1
- Worth County1
- Cape Girardeau County1
- Madison County1
- Perry County1
- Sainte Genevieve County1
- Saint Francois County1
- Buchanan County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carroll County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Jackson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Livingston County1
- Platte County1
- Ray County1
- Saline 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.