Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Missouri, April 2002
10 tornado watches in April 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20024 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mississippi County4
- New Madrid County4
- Bollinger County3
- Butler County3
- Cape Girardeau County3
- Carter County3
- Iron County3
- Madison County3
- Perry County3
- Ripley County3
- Sainte Genevieve County3
- Saint Francois County3
- Scott County3
- Stoddard County3
- Wayne County3
- City of Saint Louis3
- Andrew County2
- Atchison County2
- Buchanan County2
- Clinton County2
- Daviess County2
- DeKalb County2
- Gentry County2
- Harrison County2
- Holt County2
- Mercer County2
- Nodaway County2
- Platte County2
- Worth County2
- Callaway County2
- Crawford County2
- Dent County2
- Franklin County2
- Gasconade County2
- Howell County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Maries County2
- Montgomery County2
- Oregon County2
63 more counties
- Osage County2
- Ozark County2
- Phelps County2
- Pike County2
- Pulaski County2
- Ralls County2
- Reynolds County2
- Saint Charles County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Shannon County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Benton County2
- Carroll County2
- Henry County2
- Johnson County2
- Lafayette County2
- Linn County2
- Livingston County2
- Pettis County2
- Saline County2
- Adair County2
- Putnam County2
- Schuyler County2
- Douglas County1
- Texas County1
- Wright County1
- Bates County1
- Caldwell County1
- Cass County1
- Clay County1
- Jackson County1
- Ray County1
- Grundy County1
- Sullivan County1
- Audrain County1
- Boone County1
- Camden County1
- Chariton County1
- Cole County1
- Cooper County1
- Dallas County1
- Greene County1
- Hickory County1
- Howard County1
- Knox County1
- Laclede County1
- Lewis County1
- Macon County1
- Marion County1
- Miller County1
- Moniteau County1
- Monroe County1
- Morgan County1
- Polk County1
- Randolph County1
- St. Clair County1
- Shelby County1
- Webster County1
- Clark County1
- Scotland County1
- Dunklin County1
- Pemiscot 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.