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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2023
16 tornado watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest month
- April5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 16, 20232 tornado watches
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 8 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:51 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Franklin and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 11:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll and 38 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter and 39 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 15 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:44 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Franklin and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 13 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Pike and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway, Platte | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Ralls and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Douglas, Greene and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dunklin County6
- Butler County6
- Mississippi County6
- New Madrid County6
- Scott County6
- Stoddard County6
- Pemiscot County5
- Bollinger County5
- Cape Girardeau County5
- Carter County5
- Perry County5
- Ripley County5
- Wayne County5
- Iron County4
- Lincoln County4
- Madison County4
- Pike County4
- Reynolds County4
- Saint Charles County4
- Sainte Genevieve County4
- Saint Francois County4
- Saint Louis County4
- City of Saint Louis4
- DeKalb County4
- Gentry County4
- Lewis County4
- Marion County4
- Ralls County4
- Worth County4
- Nodaway County4
- Crawford County3
- Franklin County3
- Jefferson County3
- Warren County3
- Washington County3
- Adair County3
- Audrain County3
- Clark County3
- Daviess County3
- Grundy County3
65 more counties
- Harrison County3
- Knox County3
- Linn County3
- Livingston County3
- Macon County3
- Mercer County3
- Monroe County3
- Putnam County3
- Randolph County3
- Schuyler County3
- Shelby County3
- Sullivan County3
- Ozark County3
- Andrew County3
- Atchison County3
- Holt County3
- Boone County2
- Caldwell County2
- Carroll County2
- Chariton County2
- Cooper County2
- Howard County2
- Saline County2
- Scotland County2
- Dallas County2
- Douglas County2
- Howell County2
- Laclede County2
- Oregon County2
- Shannon County2
- Taney County2
- Webster County2
- Wright County2
- Buchanan County2
- Callaway County1
- Clinton County1
- Cole County1
- Gasconade County1
- Lafayette County1
- Moniteau County1
- Montgomery County1
- Osage County1
- Pettis County1
- Ray County1
- Benton County1
- Camden County1
- Dent County1
- Hickory County1
- Maries County1
- Miller County1
- Morgan County1
- Phelps County1
- Pulaski County1
- Texas County1
- Platte County1
- Barry County1
- Christian County1
- Dade County1
- Greene County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- McDonald County1
- Newton County1
- Polk County1
- Stone County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.