Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 2002
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20023 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Oregon County3
- Cape Girardeau County2
- Perry County2
- Howell County2
- Iron County2
- Ozark County2
- Reynolds County2
- Sainte Genevieve County2
- Saint Francois County2
- Shannon County2
- Gentry County2
- Grundy County2
- Harrison County2
- Mercer County2
- Nodaway County2
- Worth County2
- Crawford County1
- Dent County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Phelps County1
- Saint Charles County1
- Saint Louis County1
- Taney County1
- Texas County1
- Washington County1
- Wright County1
- City of Saint Louis1
- Bollinger County1
- Butler County1
- Carter County1
- Madison County1
- Ripley County1
- Scott County1
- Stoddard County1
- Wayne County1
- Adair County1
- Andrew County1
- Bates County1
25 more counties
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Chariton County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Daviess County1
- DeKalb County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Linn County1
- Livingston County1
- Pettis County1
- Platte County1
- Putnam County1
- Ray County1
- Saline County1
- Schuyler County1
- Sullivan County1
- Atchison County1
- Holt County1
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. Rebuilt daily.