Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 1996
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, March 1996
26 tornado warnings in March 1996. 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 March 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 26
- Busiest day
- March 18, 199612 tornado warnings
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 5, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 30 min |
| Mar 5, 11:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lawrence | 27 min |
| Mar 5, 11:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 36 min |
| Mar 6, 12:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 30 min |
| Mar 6, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 49 min |
| Mar 6, 5:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 54 min |
| Mar 6, 6:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 57 min |
| Mar 6, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 49 min |
| Mar 18, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah | 32 min |
| Mar 18, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 2:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 33 min |
| Mar 18, 2:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Marion | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 3:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jones | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 60 min |
| Mar 18, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 33 min |
| Mar 18, 3:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 47 min |
| Mar 18, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 9:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 9:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Warren | 68 min |
| Mar 30, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 11:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 43 min |
| Mar 30, 11:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 12:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Smith | 54 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wayne County4
- Jones County3
- Walthall County2
- Marion County2
- Rankin County2
- Issaquena County2
- Warren County2
- Lawrence County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Copiah County1
- Simpson County1
- Attala County1
- Choctaw County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Forrest County1
- Lamar County1
- Perry County1
- Lowndes County1
- Greene County1
- Hinds County1
- Madison County1
- Smith 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.