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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2002
36 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 36
- Busiest month
- April10 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- December 18, 20028 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 23, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Stoddard | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, Stoddard | 5 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 21, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Madison and 10 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 49 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland | 4 hr |
| Apr 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Perry, Scott | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Howell, Iron, Madison and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
| May 1, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cape Girardeau, Perry | 4 hr |
| May 1, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Franklin, Howell, Iron and 15 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Oregon | 5 hr |
| May 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Howell, Iron and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Caldwell and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Mercer and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Holt | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison | 5 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 18, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, Gentry, Harrison, Holt and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 6:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 11:10 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Perry, Reynolds and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 6 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 51 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 17, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 45 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Benton, Callaway, Camden, Cedar and 41 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 7:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Iron, Laclede and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Carter, Dunklin, Howell, Mississippi, New Madrid and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 18, 4:35 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Laclede and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 18, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mississippi County11
- Saint Francois County10
- New Madrid County9
- Stoddard County8
- Iron County8
- Sainte Genevieve County8
- City of Saint Louis8
- Benton County8
- Butler County7
- Dunklin County7
- Pemiscot County7
- Atchison County7
- Daviess County7
- Gentry County7
- Harrison County7
- Holt County7
- Nodaway County7
- Cape Girardeau County7
- Callaway County7
- Crawford County7
- Dent County7
- Franklin County7
- Jefferson County7
- Oregon County7
- Phelps County7
- Pulaski County7
- Saint Charles County7
- Saint Louis County7
- Washington County7
- Wright County7
- Scott County6
- Andrew County6
- Mercer County6
- Worth County6
- Bollinger County6
- Perry County6
- Douglas County6
- Gasconade County6
- Howell County6
- Lincoln County6
75 more counties
- Maries County6
- Montgomery County6
- Osage County6
- Reynolds County6
- Texas County6
- Warren County6
- Henry County6
- Johnson County6
- Linn County6
- Livingston County6
- Pettis County6
- Saline County6
- Grundy County6
- Cole County6
- Laclede County6
- Miller County6
- Moniteau County6
- Morgan County6
- Webster County6
- Buchanan County5
- Clinton County5
- DeKalb County5
- Carter County5
- Madison County5
- Ripley County5
- Ozark County5
- Pike County5
- Shannon County5
- Caldwell County5
- Carroll County5
- Lafayette County5
- Adair County5
- Audrain County5
- Boone County5
- Camden County5
- Chariton County5
- Dallas County5
- Greene County5
- Hickory County5
- Polk County5
- St. Clair County5
- Taney County5
- Christian County5
- Stone County5
- Platte County4
- Wayne County4
- Ralls County4
- Cass County4
- Ray County4
- Putnam County4
- Sullivan County4
- Cooper County4
- Howard County4
- Macon County4
- Marion County4
- Monroe County4
- Randolph County4
- Shelby County4
- Barton County4
- Cedar County4
- Dade County4
- Jasper County4
- Lawrence County4
- Newton County4
- Vernon County4
- Bates County3
- Clay County3
- Jackson County3
- Schuyler County3
- Knox County3
- Lewis County3
- Barry County3
- McDonald County3
- Clark County1
- Scotland County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.