Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, May 2002
4 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2002. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20022 severe thunderstorm 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 3, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Leflore and 9 more | 4 hr |
| May 17, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clarke, Greene, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Noxubee and 2 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lafayette County3
- Panola County3
- Tallahatchie County3
- Tishomingo County3
- Yalobusha County3
- Calhoun County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Itawamba County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Monroe County2
- Noxubee County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Prentiss County2
- Tate County2
- Union County2
- Benton County2
- Marshall County2
- Tippah County2
- Attala County1
- Carroll County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clay County1
- Grenada County1
- Holmes County1
- Montgomery County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Webster County1
- Winston County1
- Bolivar County1
- Coahoma County1
- DeSoto County1
- Leflore County1
- Quitman County1
- Sunflower County1
- Tunica County1
- Alcorn County1
- Clarke County1
- Greene County1
- Kemper County1
2 more counties
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.