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Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 2017
8 tornado watches in May 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 May 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20172 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 17, 12:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 9 hr |
| May 18, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Clay and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Lawrence and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 41 more | 7 hr |
| May 19, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Greene, Howell and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 12:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Bollinger, Boone and 61 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Butler, Carter, Christian, Douglas, Dunklin and 19 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Barry County5
- Christian County5
- Douglas County5
- Greene County5
- Howell County5
- Lawrence County5
- McDonald County5
- Newton County5
- Ozark County5
- Stone County5
- Taney County5
- Texas County5
- Webster County5
- Wright County5
- Oregon County4
- Shannon County4
- Jackson County3
- Saline County3
- Dent County3
- Jasper County3
- Buchanan County2
- Caldwell County2
- Carroll County2
- Chariton County2
- Clay County2
- Clinton County2
- Linn County2
- Livingston County2
- Platte County2
- Ray County2
- Cass County2
- Johnson County2
- Lafayette County2
- Benton County2
- Boone County2
- Callaway County2
- Camden County2
- Cedar County2
- Cole County2
- Cooper County2
63 more counties
- Crawford County2
- Dade County2
- Dallas County2
- Gasconade County2
- Henry County2
- Hickory County2
- Howard County2
- Laclede County2
- Maries County2
- Miller County2
- Moniteau County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morgan County2
- Osage County2
- Pettis County2
- Phelps County2
- Polk County2
- Pulaski County2
- St. Clair County2
- Warren County2
- Butler County2
- Carter County2
- Ripley County2
- Wayne County2
- Adair County1
- Andrew County1
- Atchison County1
- Daviess County1
- DeKalb County1
- Gentry County1
- Grundy County1
- Harrison County1
- Holt County1
- Macon County1
- Mercer County1
- Nodaway County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Schuyler County1
- Sullivan County1
- Worth County1
- Clark County1
- Scotland County1
- Audrain County1
- Lincoln County1
- Pike County1
- Barton County1
- Bates County1
- Bollinger County1
- Franklin County1
- Iron County1
- Jefferson County1
- Madison County1
- Perry County1
- Reynolds County1
- Sainte Genevieve County1
- Saint Francois County1
- Vernon County1
- Washington County1
- Dunklin County1
- New Madrid County1
- Pemiscot County1
- Stoddard County1
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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.