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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2022

21 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
21
Busiest month
March10 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 7, 20223 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
Dec 31, 11:57 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot7 hr
Feb 22, 3:52 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more6 hr
Mar 5, 2:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison, Holt and 4 more6 hr
Mar 5, 5:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Daviess and 13 more4 hr
Mar 5, 6:10 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls and 2 more4 hr
Mar 6, 2:18 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCButler, Carter, Douglas, Dunklin, Howell, New Madrid and 8 more6 hr
Mar 6, 7:58 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Douglas, Dunklin and 12 more6 hr
Mar 7, 1:07 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot6 hr
Mar 7, 1:52 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCMississippi5 hr
Mar 30, 5:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCChristian, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon and 4 more8 hr
Mar 30, 12:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot9 hr
Mar 30, 2:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Perry and 3 more6 hr
Apr 13, 11:16 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 20 more5 hr
Apr 13, 1:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot7 hr
Apr 15, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot4 hr
Apr 30, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Madison and 8 more8 hr
May 19, 12:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter and 39 more6 hr
May 19, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMississippi, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis6 hr
May 30, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Clinton, DeKalb, Gentry and 5 more5 hr
Jun 11, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess and 9 more6 hr
Sep 18, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Clark, Harrison, Knox, Lewis, Marion and 6 more6 hr

By county

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

52 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 7, 20223tornado watches
  2. March 30, 20223tornado watches
  3. March 5, 20222tornado watches
  4. March 6, 20222tornado watches
  5. April 13, 20222tornado watches
  6. May 19, 20222tornado watches
  7. January 1, 20221tornado watches
  8. February 22, 20221tornado watches
  9. April 16, 20221tornado watches
  10. April 30, 20221tornado watches
  11. May 30, 20221tornado watches
  12. June 11, 20221tornado 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.