Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 1998

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, May 1998

11 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 11
Busiest day: May 9, 19985 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
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

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1997 1999

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.