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Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 2013

16 tornado watches in May 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
16
Busiest day
May 19, 20134 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 10:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, DeKalb and 6 more3 hr
May 19, 1:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Cass, Clay and 12 more10 hr
May 19, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Scotland8 hr
May 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 55 more9 hr
May 19, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Scotland6 hr
May 20, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 41 more8 hr
May 20, 5:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford and 20 more7 hr
May 20, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Benton, Camden, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 27 more6 hr
May 20, 10:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more6 hr
May 21, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot7 hr
May 28, 2:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Bates, Boone and 44 more8 hr
May 30, 12:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Bollinger, Boone, Callaway, Cape Girardeau, Clark and 28 more7 hr
May 30, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Chariton and 37 more8 hr
May 30, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot7 hr
May 31, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 30 more8 hr
May 31, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lincoln and 9 more4 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.