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Tornado Watches in Missouri, May 2025
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20253 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 16, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Bollinger, Butler, Callaway, Camden, Cape Girardeau and 42 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 8 hr |
| May 16, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 9 hr |
| May 19, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 43 more | 9 hr |
| May 19, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Barry, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway and 52 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 1:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dunklin, Mississippi and 6 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bollinger County3
- Butler County3
- Camden County3
- Cape Girardeau County3
- Carter County3
- Christian County3
- Dallas County3
- Douglas County3
- Greene County3
- Laclede County3
- Ozark County3
- Ripley County3
- Stone County3
- Taney County3
- Wayne County3
- Webster County3
- Wright County3
- Mississippi County3
- New Madrid County3
- Scott County3
- Stoddard County3
- Audrain County2
- Callaway County2
- Cole County2
- Crawford County2
- Dent County2
- Franklin County2
- Gasconade County2
- Howell County2
- Iron County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Maries County2
- Miller County2
- Montgomery County2
- Oregon County2
- Osage County2
- Perry County2
- Phelps County2
56 more counties
- Pike County2
- Pulaski County2
- Reynolds County2
- Saint Charles County2
- Sainte Genevieve County2
- Saint Francois County2
- Saint Louis County2
- Shannon County2
- Texas County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- City of Saint Louis2
- Dunklin County2
- Pemiscot County2
- Barry County2
- Morgan County2
- Andrew County1
- Atchison County1
- Barton County1
- Bates County1
- Benton County1
- Buchanan County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carroll County1
- Cass County1
- Cedar County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Dade County1
- Daviess County1
- DeKalb County1
- Gentry County1
- Henry County1
- Hickory County1
- Holt County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Johnson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lawrence County1
- Livingston County1
- McDonald County1
- Newton County1
- Nodaway County1
- Pettis County1
- Platte County1
- Polk County1
- Ray County1
- St. Clair County1
- Saline County1
- Vernon County1
- Worth County1
- Boone County1
- Moniteau County1
- Monroe County1
- Ralls 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.