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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2018

17 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
17
Busiest month
April5 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 13, 20183 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 24, 3:16 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 6 more8 hr
Apr 3, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 20 more7 hr
Apr 13, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Greene and 9 more9 hr
Apr 13, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 24 more7 hr
Apr 13, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford and 33 more8 hr
Apr 13, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott10 hr
May 2, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Atchison, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell and 31 more8 hr
May 31, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian and 32 more6 hr
Jun 11, 3:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Holt, Nodaway, Worth6 hr
Jul 19, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Scotland6 hr
Jul 20, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott and 1 more8 hr
Aug 19, 4:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 21 more7 hr
Oct 8, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 10 more4 hr
Oct 9, 12:17 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 19 more8 hr
Oct 9, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 31 more7 hr
Nov 30, 9:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 19 more5 hr
Dec 1, 2:16 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCLincoln, Pike7 hr

By county

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

62 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 13, 20183tornado watches
  2. October 9, 20182tornado watches
  3. December 1, 20182tornado watches
  4. February 24, 20181tornado watches
  5. April 3, 20181tornado watches
  6. April 14, 20181tornado watches
  7. May 2, 20181tornado watches
  8. May 31, 20181tornado watches
  9. June 11, 20181tornado watches
  10. July 19, 20181tornado watches
  11. July 20, 20181tornado watches
  12. August 19, 20181tornado 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.