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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2017

26 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
26
Busiest month
March10 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 1, 20174 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 2:19 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Benton, Bollinger, Boone, Butler and 58 more7 hr
Feb 28, 2:57 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe and 4 more7 hr
Feb 28, 3:40 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot6 hr
Feb 28, 6:23 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Bates, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Cooper and 15 more5 hr
Feb 28, 8:29 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 7 more12 hr
Feb 28, 9:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Callaway and 54 more7 hr
Mar 1, 3:03 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 7 more5 hr
Mar 6, 2:27 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more8 hr
Mar 6, 6:51 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 28 more8 hr
Mar 6, 8:52 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford and 25 more6 hr
Mar 6, 9:21 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Perry and 3 more8 hr
Mar 29, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass and 34 more7 hr
Mar 29, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Butler, Callaway, Carter, Cole, Crawford and 15 more5 hr
Apr 19, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Holt, Nodaway7 hr
May 17, 12:08 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 22 more7 hr
May 17, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Scotland9 hr
May 18, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBuchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Clay and 9 more7 hr
May 18, 10:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Lawrence and 10 more6 hr
May 19, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 41 more7 hr
May 19, 9:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Greene, Howell and 11 more7 hr
May 27, 12:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Boone and 61 more7 hr
May 27, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Butler, Carter, Christian, Douglas, Dunklin and 19 more6 hr
Jun 28, 2:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Atchison, Clark, Daviess, DeKalb and 14 more9 hr
Oct 14, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Bates, Boone, Caldwell, Carroll and 31 more8 hr
Nov 5, 12:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCrawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron, Jefferson, Madison and 9 more6 hr
Nov 5, 3:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Perry, Scott, Stoddard and 1 more6 hr

By county

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

75 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 1, 20174tornado watches
  2. February 28, 20173tornado watches
  3. March 7, 20173tornado watches
  4. May 17, 20172tornado watches
  5. May 19, 20172tornado watches
  6. November 5, 20172tornado watches
  7. March 6, 20171tornado watches
  8. March 29, 20171tornado watches
  9. March 30, 20171tornado watches
  10. April 19, 20171tornado watches
  11. May 18, 20171tornado watches
  12. May 20, 20171tornado watches

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.