Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 1997

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, May 1997

38 tornado warnings in May 1997. 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
38
Busiest day
May 3, 199715 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLeflore42 min
May 2, 4:34 PM CDTTornado WarningJANCarroll, Grenada56 min
May 2, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningJANMontgomery52 min
May 2, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningJANIssaquena, Sharkey63 min
May 2, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningJANWashington41 min
May 2, 5:22 PM CDTTornado WarningJANWebster53 min
May 2, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHumphreys65 min
May 2, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGChickasaw, Clay31 min
May 2, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHolmes64 min
May 2, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMonroe30 min
May 2, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAttala, Carroll, Montgomery58 min
May 2, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHumphreys46 min
May 2, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningJANWashington52 min
May 2, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningJANChoctaw, Webster48 min
May 2, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHolmes41 min
May 2, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningJANChoctaw45 min
May 2, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningJANOktibbeha44 min
May 2, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WarningJANSunflower42 min
May 2, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGClay31 min
May 2, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHolmes41 min
May 2, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAttala, Carroll, Montgomery51 min
May 2, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLowndes35 min
May 2, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningJANSunflower48 min
May 2, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMonroe33 min
May 2, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLeflore41 min
May 2, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningJANChoctaw51 min
May 2, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLowndes32 min
May 14, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAttala45 min
May 14, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLeake, Neshoba46 min
May 27, 8:41 PM CDTTornado WarningJANMadison, Rankin, Scott49 min
May 27, 8:41 PM CDTTornado WarningJANLeake49 min
May 27, 10:20 PM CDTTornado WarningJANNewton40 min
May 27, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningJANMadison29 min
May 27, 11:11 PM CDTTornado WarningJANRankin49 min
May 28, 12:08 AM CDTTornado WarningJANScott37 min
May 28, 12:53 AM CDTTornado WarningJANJasper37 min
May 28, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXPearl River28 min
May 28, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningLIXAmite36 min

By county

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

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. Rebuilt daily.