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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2019

28 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
28
Busiest month
May16 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 21, 20193 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
Mar 9, 10:32 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot8 hr
Mar 14, 5:28 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot7 hr
Apr 30, 12:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 22 more13 hr
Apr 30, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Carter, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron and 12 more5 hr
May 2, 2:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin5 hr
May 2, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Stoddard5 hr
May 18, 10:07 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar and 22 more7 hr
May 20, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 11 more8 hr
May 21, 12:18 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Christian, Douglas, Howell, McDonald, Ozark and 4 more5 hr
May 21, 11:32 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Camden, Christian, Dallas, Dent, Douglas and 16 more7 hr
May 21, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Cape Girardeau and 32 more8 hr
May 21, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Perry, Scott, Stoddard3 hr
May 22, 3:32 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBarton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Carroll, Cass and 22 more7 hr
May 22, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Knox and 9 more7 hr
May 22, 9:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 23 more8 hr
May 22, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCallaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron and 14 more8 hr
May 24, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Bates, Benton, Boone, Buchanan and 36 more5 hr
May 24, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Scotland4 hr
May 28, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton and 16 more8 hr
Aug 12, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLincoln, Pike5 hr
Sep 27, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Scotland, Shelby7 hr
Oct 1, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtchison, Holt, Nodaway, Worth7 hr
Oct 20, 10:21 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 24 more5 hr
Oct 21, 3:06 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dunklin and 15 more6 hr
Nov 26, 4:41 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCButler, Carter, Howell, Oregon, Ripley, Shannon and 1 more5 hr
Nov 26, 6:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 49 more6 hr
Nov 26, 10:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCPerry4 hr
Dec 28, 3:49 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Greene and 10 more6 hr

By county

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

69 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 21, 20193tornado watches
  2. May 22, 20193tornado watches
  3. May 2, 20192tornado watches
  4. May 23, 20192tornado watches
  5. May 24, 20192tornado watches
  6. October 21, 20192tornado watches
  7. November 27, 20192tornado watches
  8. March 9, 20191tornado watches
  9. March 14, 20191tornado watches
  10. April 30, 20191tornado watches
  11. May 1, 20191tornado watches
  12. May 18, 20191tornado 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.