Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 2023
3 tornado watches in May 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 May 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 6, 20231 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Andrew County2
- Atchison County2
- Holt County2
- Nodaway County2
- Adair County1
- Daviess County1
- DeKalb County1
- Gentry County1
- Grundy County1
- Harrison County1
- Linn County1
- Livingston County1
- Macon County1
- Mercer County1
- Putnam County1
- Randolph County1
- Schuyler County1
- Sullivan County1
- Worth County1
- Audrain County1
- Knox County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Monroe County1
- Pike County1
- Ralls County1
- Shelby County1
- Buchanan County1
- Platte County1
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.