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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2016
11 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- March2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 2, 20161 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Boone, Buchanan and 35 more | 7 hr |
| May 9, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 25 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 8 hr |
| Aug 26, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caldwell, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Linn, Livingston and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 17, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Andrew County5
- Buchanan County5
- Caldwell County5
- Daviess County5
- DeKalb County5
- Grundy County5
- Harrison County5
- Livingston County5
- Atchison County4
- Clinton County4
- Gentry County4
- Holt County4
- Mercer County4
- Nodaway County4
- Worth County4
- Dunklin County3
- Mississippi County3
- New Madrid County3
- Pemiscot County3
- Linn County3
- Putnam County3
- Sullivan County3
- Carroll County3
- Ray County3
- Cape Girardeau County2
- Scott County2
- Audrain County2
- Knox County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Pike County2
- Ralls County2
- Shelby County2
- Chariton County2
- Cooper County2
- Howard County2
- Macon County2
- Randolph County2
23 more counties
- Saline County2
- Clay County2
- Jackson County2
- Platte County2
- Bollinger County1
- Butler County1
- Perry County1
- Stoddard County1
- Wayne County1
- Clark County1
- Scotland County1
- Adair County1
- Boone County1
- Callaway County1
- Montgomery County1
- Schuyler County1
- Warren County1
- Bates County1
- Cass County1
- Henry County1
- Johnson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Pettis County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.