Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 2024
18 tornado watches in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20245 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, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Holt | 8 hr |
| May 6, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 54 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Carter and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 7 hr |
| May 8, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 5 hr |
| May 8, 1:57 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 4 hr |
| May 8, 10:29 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Franklin and 15 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 11:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 24 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian and 32 more | 9 hr |
| May 8, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 7 hr |
| May 21, 11:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison | 5 hr |
| May 21, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 51 more | 7 hr |
| May 21, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Crawford and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass and 23 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:35 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Cole, Crawford and 33 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 10:39 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.
- Christian County7
- Greene County7
- Laclede County7
- Stone County7
- Taney County7
- Barry County6
- Camden County6
- Dallas County6
- Douglas County6
- Ozark County6
- Polk County6
- Webster County6
- Wright County6
- Butler County6
- Crawford County6
- Dent County6
- Howell County6
- Iron County6
- Oregon County6
- Phelps County6
- Pulaski County6
- Reynolds County6
- Shannon County6
- Texas County6
- Washington County6
- Mississippi County6
- New Madrid County6
- Scott County6
- Stoddard County6
- Barton County5
- Cedar County5
- Dade County5
- Hickory County5
- Jasper County5
- Lawrence County5
- McDonald County5
- Newton County5
- St. Clair County5
- Vernon County5
- Bollinger County5
75 more counties
- Carter County5
- Franklin County5
- Gasconade County5
- Jefferson County5
- Madison County5
- Perry County5
- Ripley County5
- Sainte Genevieve County5
- Saint Francois County5
- Wayne County5
- Dunklin County5
- Pemiscot County5
- Benton County4
- Morgan County4
- Miller County4
- Cape Girardeau County4
- Bates County3
- Cass County3
- Clay County3
- Henry County3
- Jackson County3
- Johnson County3
- Platte County3
- Cole County3
- Maries County3
- Moniteau County3
- Osage County3
- Saint Charles County3
- Saint Louis County3
- Warren County3
- City of Saint Louis3
- Atchison County2
- Holt County2
- Adair County2
- Andrew County2
- Buchanan County2
- Caldwell County2
- Carroll County2
- Chariton County2
- Clinton County2
- Cooper County2
- Daviess County2
- DeKalb County2
- Gentry County2
- Grundy County2
- Harrison County2
- Howard County2
- Lafayette County2
- Linn County2
- Livingston County2
- Macon County2
- Mercer County2
- Nodaway County2
- Pettis County2
- Putnam County2
- Randolph County2
- Ray County2
- Saline County2
- Schuyler County2
- Sullivan County2
- Worth County2
- Audrain County2
- Boone County2
- Callaway County2
- Knox County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Pike County2
- Ralls County2
- Shelby County2
- Clark County1
- Scotland County1
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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.