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Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 1998
112 tornado warnings in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 112
- Busiest month
- April44 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- April 17, 199811 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 5:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Washington | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 6:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Yazoo | 42 min |
| Feb 10, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 38 min |
| Feb 10, 6:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 32 min |
| Feb 10, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 10:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne | 31 min |
| Feb 26, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 2:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 34 min |
| Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper, Jones | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 3:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 28 min |
| Feb 26, 3:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 53 min |
| Feb 26, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 53 min |
| Mar 5, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 48 min |
| Mar 7, 5:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 33 min |
| Mar 7, 6:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 31 min |
| Mar 7, 12:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson | 41 min |
| Mar 31, 1:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 12:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 39 min |
| Apr 8, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Pontotoc | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 43 min |
| Apr 8, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Union | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Prentiss | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leflore | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 62 min |
| Apr 17, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 61 min |
| Apr 17, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 49 min |
| Apr 17, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 60 min |
| Apr 17, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 60 min |
| Apr 17, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Marshall | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Union | 50 min |
| Apr 27, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Marshall | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Union | 48 min |
| Apr 27, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 1:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 1:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 35 min |
| May 6, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 20 min |
| May 9, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw | 34 min |
| May 9, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Oktibbeha | 34 min |
| May 9, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Winston | 20 min |
| May 9, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 33 min |
| May 9, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 46 min |
| May 9, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee | 35 min |
| May 9, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 33 min |
| May 9, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 44 min |
| May 9, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 48 min |
| May 28, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lowndes | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Adams | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Marion | 49 min |
| Jun 5, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 10:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jones | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 11:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 19 min |
| Jun 5, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 15 min |
| Jun 15, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Scott | 48 min |
| Jun 15, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 48 min |
| Jun 21, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 31 min |
| Sep 20, 9:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 45 min |
| Sep 20, 9:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 46 min |
| Sep 20, 11:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 49 min |
| Sep 22, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 3:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 31 min |
| Sep 28, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 20 min |
| Sep 28, 4:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison, Jackson | 31 min |
| Sep 28, 6:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 28 min |
| Sep 28, 8:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 32 min |
| Sep 28, 8:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 32 min |
| Nov 10, 7:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 8:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 8:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 10:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 11:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 48 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pearl River County7
- Harrison County7
- Yazoo County4
- Jones County4
- Walthall County4
- Forrest County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Greene County4
- Lowndes County4
- Madison County4
- Hancock County4
- Hinds County3
- Lamar County3
- Clarke County3
- Scott County3
- Noxubee County3
- Union County3
- Attala County3
- Marion County3
- Marshall County3
- Issaquena County2
- Washington County2
- Sharkey County2
- Leflore County2
- Carroll County2
- Jasper County2
- Neshoba County2
- Holmes County2
- Lee County2
- Itawamba County2
- Kemper County2
- Rankin County2
- Tishomingo County2
- Sunflower County2
- Perry County2
- Benton County2
- Tippah County2
- Jackson County2
- Grenada County1
- Claiborne County1
20 more counties
- Jefferson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Bolivar County1
- Monroe County1
- Stone County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Choctaw County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Winston County1
- Newton County1
- Simpson County1
- Smith County1
- Adams County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Lawrence County1
- Covington County1
- Wayne County1
- Humphreys County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.