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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 1999
40 tornado watches in 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 40
- Busiest month
- April16 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 8, 19995 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Perry, Scott and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Madison, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Douglas and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Camden, Carroll and 39 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Franklin, Iron and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Clark, Grundy, Knox, Lewis, Mercer and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Holt | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Putnam, Schuyler and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Chariton and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Carter, Christian, Crawford, Dallas, Dent and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | City of Saint Louis | 5 hr |
| Apr 10, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Jefferson and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Greene and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Scott | 7 hr |
| May 4, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Cass, Cedar and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Carter, Christian and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Iron and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
| May 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 6 hr |
| May 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Nodaway, Worth | 6 hr |
| May 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb, Platte | 6 hr |
| May 16, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atchison, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren, City of Saint Louis | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Mercer and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Mercer and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Gasconade, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Scott County11
- Cape Girardeau County10
- Mississippi County9
- Stoddard County9
- Dunklin County8
- Pemiscot County8
- Bollinger County8
- Butler County8
- Carter County8
- Iron County8
- New Madrid County8
- Oregon County8
- Reynolds County8
- Dent County7
- Franklin County7
- Madison County7
- Perry County7
- Shannon County7
- Washington County7
- Wayne County7
- Dallas County7
- City of Saint Louis7
- Howell County6
- Jefferson County6
- Ripley County6
- Sainte Genevieve County6
- Saint Francois County6
- Texas County6
- Douglas County6
- Laclede County6
- Polk County6
- Webster County6
- Wright County6
- Lincoln County6
- Saint Louis County6
- Warren County6
- Grundy County6
- Mercer County6
- Putnam County6
- Atchison County6
75 more counties
- Holt County6
- Harrison County6
- Crawford County5
- Gasconade County5
- Maries County5
- Osage County5
- Phelps County5
- Barry County5
- Greene County5
- Hickory County5
- Pulaski County5
- Stone County5
- Taney County5
- Ozark County5
- Moniteau County5
- Montgomery County5
- Pike County5
- Saint Charles County5
- Adair County5
- Sullivan County5
- Gentry County5
- Nodaway County5
- Worth County5
- Cedar County4
- Christian County4
- Dade County4
- Jasper County4
- Lawrence County4
- McDonald County4
- Newton County4
- Barton County4
- Clay County4
- Ray County4
- Benton County4
- Boone County4
- Callaway County4
- Camden County4
- Chariton County4
- Cole County4
- Cooper County4
- Howard County4
- Macon County4
- Miller County4
- Morgan County4
- Randolph County4
- Audrain County4
- Ralls County4
- Schuyler County4
- Platte County3
- Vernon County3
- Caldwell County3
- Carroll County3
- Clinton County3
- DeKalb County3
- Johnson County3
- Linn County3
- Livingston County3
- Pettis County3
- Saline County3
- Marion County3
- Shelby County3
- Clark County3
- Knox County3
- Lewis County3
- Scotland County3
- Bates County2
- Cass County2
- Henry County2
- Lafayette County2
- Andrew County2
- Buchanan County2
- Daviess County2
- Monroe County2
- St. Clair County2
- Jackson County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.