Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Missouri, December 2002
8 tornado watches in December 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- December 18, 20028 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Christian County5
- Laclede County5
- Pulaski County5
- Stone County5
- Webster County5
- Wright County5
- Barton County4
- Benton County4
- Callaway County4
- Camden County4
- Cedar County4
- Cole County4
- Dade County4
- Dallas County4
- Douglas County4
- Greene County4
- Hickory County4
- Jasper County4
- Lawrence County4
- Miller County4
- Moniteau County4
- Morgan County4
- Newton County4
- Polk County4
- St. Clair County4
- Taney County4
- Vernon County4
- Dent County4
- Phelps County4
- Texas County4
- Audrain County3
- Barry County3
- Boone County3
- McDonald County3
- Crawford County3
- Franklin County3
- Gasconade County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Maries County3
51 more counties
- Montgomery County3
- Osage County3
- Saint Charles County3
- Saint Francois County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Warren County3
- Washington County3
- City of Saint Louis3
- Adair County2
- Chariton County2
- Cooper County2
- Henry County2
- Howard County2
- Johnson County2
- Knox County2
- Lewis County2
- Macon County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Pettis County2
- Randolph County2
- Saline County2
- Shelby County2
- Iron County2
- Pike County2
- Howell County2
- Oregon County2
- Dunklin County2
- Pemiscot County2
- Bates County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Daviess County1
- Grundy County1
- Lafayette County1
- Linn County1
- Livingston County1
- Ray County1
- Sullivan County1
- Sainte Genevieve County1
- Ozark County1
- Reynolds County1
- Shannon County1
- Ralls County1
- Butler County1
- Carter County1
- Mississippi County1
- New Madrid County1
- Ripley County1
- Stoddard 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.