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Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1986

25 tornado warnings in 1986. 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 warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
25
Busiest month
March11 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 12, 19867 tornado warnings

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
Jan 31, 11:50 AM CSTTornado WarningJANJones25 min
Feb 4, 4:05 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBForrest, Perry55 min
Feb 10, 11:15 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBGreene, Perry45 min
Feb 10, 5:05 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBJackson25 min
Feb 17, 4:22 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGTate38 min
Mar 12, 2:57 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGTippah33 min
Mar 12, 12:24 PM CSTTornado WarningJANJasper86 min
Mar 12, 12:39 PM CSTTornado WarningJANClarke, Lauderdale51 min
Mar 12, 1:18 PM CSTTornado WarningJANKemper42 min
Mar 12, 1:32 PM CSTTornado WarningJANLauderdale28 min
Mar 12, 1:51 PM CSTTornado WarningJANNeshoba34 min
Mar 12, 5:07 PM CSTTornado WarningJANJones, Wayne68 min
Mar 18, 2:31 PM CSTTornado WarningJANCarroll, Holmes59 min
Mar 18, 2:31 PM CSTTornado WarningJANYazoo59 min
Mar 18, 3:47 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGBenton58 min
Mar 18, 4:23 PM CSTTornado WarningJANHolmes37 min
May 18, 11:04 AM CDTTornado WarningJANIssaquena, Warren56 min
May 18, 11:40 AM CDTTornado WarningJANWarren35 min
Jun 28, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBHarrison45 min
Jul 9, 9:05 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBHarrison55 min
Jul 31, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGDeSoto68 min
Aug 10, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGQuitman32 min
Aug 10, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningJANJones37 min
Aug 10, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningJANWayne34 min
Nov 8, 4:05 PM CSTTornado WarningJANBolivar, Washington55 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 12, 19867tornado warnings
  2. March 18, 19864tornado warnings
  3. August 10, 19863tornado warnings
  4. February 10, 19862tornado warnings
  5. May 18, 19862tornado warnings
  6. January 31, 19861tornado warnings
  7. February 4, 19861tornado warnings
  8. February 17, 19861tornado warnings
  9. June 28, 19861tornado warnings
  10. July 9, 19861tornado warnings
  11. August 1, 19861tornado warnings
  12. November 8, 19861tornado warnings

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.