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Tornado Watches in Missouri, 2025

31 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
31
Busiest month
April13 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 2, 20255 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
Mar 14, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden and 62 more9 hr
Mar 14, 7:34 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 7 more10 hr
Mar 23, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCPemiscot8 hr
Mar 30, 12:02 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCPerry7 hr
Mar 30, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Howell and 16 more8 hr
Apr 2, 2:28 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll and 25 more8 hr
Apr 2, 5:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 17 more7 hr
Apr 2, 8:47 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Dent and 30 more9 hr
Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 7 more9 hr
Apr 2, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCIron, Jefferson, Madison, Reynolds, Sainte Genevieve, Saint Francois and 2 more3 hr
Apr 4, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot and 3 more7 hr
Apr 4, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot9 hr
Apr 4, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMississippi, New Madrid, Scott5 hr
Apr 20, 12:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Boone and 45 more9 hr
Apr 20, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Clark, Crawford and 28 more7 hr
Apr 20, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot6 hr
Apr 28, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton and 8 more7 hr
Apr 30, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCFranklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Warren and 1 more5 hr
May 16, 11:58 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Bollinger, Butler, Callaway, Camden, Cape Girardeau and 42 more8 hr
May 16, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard8 hr
May 16, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDunklin, Pemiscot9 hr
May 19, 1:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrew, Atchison, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 43 more9 hr
May 19, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAudrain, Barry, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway and 52 more7 hr
May 20, 1:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 6 more8 hr
Jun 3, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Bates, Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Chariton and 19 more6 hr
Jun 6, 1:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott and 2 more7 hr
Jun 7, 1:07 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCMcDonald6 hr
Jun 18, 9:46 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Jefferson, Lincoln, Madison, Perry and 6 more6 hr
Jun 18, 2:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCMississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard6 hr
Jul 11, 12:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Gentry, Harrison, Mercer, Putnam, Schuyler and 2 more7 hr
Dec 28, 2:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry, Scott6 hr

By county

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

75 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 2, 20255tornado watches
  2. April 20, 20253tornado watches
  3. May 16, 20253tornado watches
  4. March 30, 20252tornado watches
  5. April 5, 20252tornado watches
  6. May 20, 20252tornado watches
  7. June 18, 20252tornado watches
  8. March 14, 20251tornado watches
  9. March 15, 20251tornado watches
  10. March 23, 20251tornado watches
  11. April 4, 20251tornado watches
  12. April 28, 20251tornado watches

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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.