Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 2009
7 tornado watches in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20092 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 7, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 9:21 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
| May 13, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Callaway, Chariton, Clark, Daviess and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Jefferson, Madison, Perry, Sainte Genevieve and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Audrain, Bates, Boone, Buchanan and 36 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adair County3
- Chariton County3
- Daviess County3
- Grundy County3
- Linn County3
- Livingston County3
- Macon County3
- Randolph County3
- Sullivan County3
- Andrew County2
- Buchanan County2
- Caldwell County2
- Carroll County2
- Clay County2
- Clinton County2
- Cooper County2
- DeKalb County2
- Harrison County2
- Howard County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lafayette County2
- Mercer County2
- Pettis County2
- Platte County2
- Putnam County2
- Ray County2
- Saline County2
- Schuyler County2
- Bollinger County2
- Cape Girardeau County2
- Dunklin County2
- Madison County2
- Pemiscot County2
- Perry County2
- Sainte Genevieve County2
- Saint Francois County2
- Wayne County2
- Audrain County2
- Callaway County2
41 more counties
- Knox County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Ralls County2
- Shelby County2
- Warren County2
- Jefferson County2
- Atchison County1
- Gentry County1
- Holt County1
- Nodaway County1
- Worth County1
- Butler County1
- Carter County1
- Crawford County1
- Dent County1
- Iron County1
- Mississippi County1
- New Madrid County1
- Oregon County1
- Reynolds County1
- Ripley County1
- Scott County1
- Shannon County1
- Stoddard County1
- Washington County1
- Clark County1
- Scotland County1
- Bates County1
- Boone County1
- Cass County1
- Henry County1
- Moniteau County1
- Franklin County1
- Saint Charles County1
- Saint Louis County1
- City of Saint Louis1
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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.