Alert archive / Mississippi / 1997
Weather alerts in Mississippi, March 1997
79 weather alerts in March 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 79
- Warnings
- 69
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 2, 199717 alerts
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 12:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Pontotoc | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Union | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 1:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 25 min |
| Mar 1, 1:55 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Grenada | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 2:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 2:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 2:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 2:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 19 min |
| Mar 1, 2:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 3:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pontotoc, Union | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 5:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, Grenada, Lafayette, Leflore, Panola and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Marshall | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 3:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 3:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Webster | 43 min |
| Mar 2, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw | 48 min |
| Mar 2, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 5:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 43 min |
| Mar 2, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 6:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 6:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:57 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lee | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Montgomery, Webster | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:21 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leflore | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Jasper, Jones, Kemper and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tunica | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:47 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 8:53 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tate | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:05 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Tippah | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 9:36 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Quitman | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 52 min |
| Mar 5, 11:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 42 min |
| Mar 5, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 31 min |
| Mar 5, 11:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 11:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 12:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 32 min |
| Mar 5, 12:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 32 min |
| Mar 13, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 12 min |
| Mar 18, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 51 min |
| Mar 25, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 2:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tippah | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 3:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 53 min |
| Mar 29, 4:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Walthall | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 5:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lamar | 25 min |
| Mar 29, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 40 min |
| Mar 29, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 2:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 53 min |
| Mar 30, 2:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 57 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 39 |
| Tornado Warning | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 18 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pontotoc County10
- Lee County10
- Tishomingo County9
- Calhoun County8
- Tippah County8
- Holmes County8
- Carroll County8
- Montgomery County8
- DeSoto County7
- Lafayette County7
- Marshall County7
- Tate County7
- Tunica County7
- Union County7
- Grenada County7
- Alcorn County6
- Benton County6
- Coahoma County6
- Itawamba County6
- Panola County6
- Prentiss County6
- Quitman County6
- Yalobusha County6
- Leflore County6
- Choctaw County6
- Lowndes County6
- Webster County6
- Sunflower County5
- Washington County5
- Attala County5
- Clay County5
- Noxubee County5
- Oktibbeha County5
- Yazoo County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Bolivar County4
- Tallahatchie County4
- Humphreys County4
- Marion County4
- Winston County4
38 more counties
- Monroe County4
- Clarke County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson Davis County3
- Jones County3
- Kemper County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Neshoba County3
- Newton County3
- Pearl River County3
- Adams County2
- Amite County2
- Claiborne County2
- Copiah County2
- Covington County2
- Franklin County2
- Hinds County2
- Issaquena County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lamar County2
- Lawrence County2
- Leake County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Pike County2
- Rankin County2
- Scott County2
- Sharkey County2
- Simpson County2
- Smith County2
- Walthall County2
- Warren County2
- Wayne County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Hancock County1
- Forrest County1
- Perry County1
- Greene 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. Rebuilt daily.