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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2020

20 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
20
Busiest month
March10 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 28, 20204 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
Jan 10, 10:42 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarry, McDonald, Newton10 hr
Jan 10, 5:34 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChristian, Dent, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Oregon and 7 more11 hr
Jan 10, 11:58 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot7 hr
Mar 2, 5:21 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 10 more8 hr
Mar 12, 11:44 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Perry and 2 more6 hr
Mar 12, 3:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 16 more7 hr
Mar 19, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer and 4 more8 hr
Mar 19, 4:06 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Mississippi, New Madrid and 4 more7 hr
Mar 19, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 6 more6 hr
Mar 28, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot5 hr
Mar 28, 2:45 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Clark and 21 more6 hr
Mar 28, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Franklin and 20 more5 hr
Mar 28, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot7 hr
Apr 8, 4:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 25 more7 hr
Apr 28, 3:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 2 more8 hr
May 4, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Christian, Dade, Greene, Jasper and 5 more9 hr
Jul 15, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 23 more7 hr
Jul 15, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry5 hr
Aug 27, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot8 hr
Nov 14, 5:14 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 51 more8 hr

By county

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

63 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 28, 20204tornado watches
  2. January 10, 20202tornado watches
  3. March 12, 20202tornado watches
  4. March 19, 20202tornado watches
  5. July 15, 20202tornado watches
  6. January 11, 20201tornado watches
  7. March 2, 20201tornado watches
  8. March 20, 20201tornado watches
  9. April 8, 20201tornado watches
  10. April 28, 20201tornado watches
  11. May 4, 20201tornado watches
  12. August 27, 20201tornado 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.