Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 2002
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, December 2002
30 tornado warnings in December 2002. 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 30
- Busiest day
- December 19, 200218 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 44 min |
| Dec 19, 10:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 10:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 19 min |
| Dec 19, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 29 min |
| Dec 19, 10:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 32 min |
| Dec 19, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 11:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 11:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson | 43 min |
| Dec 19, 11:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 5 hr |
| Dec 19, 12:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 12:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 25 min |
| Dec 19, 12:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 24 min |
| Dec 19, 12:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 4 days |
| Dec 19, 1:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 28 min |
| Dec 19, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 30 min |
| Dec 19, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 25 min |
| Dec 19, 1:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 27 min |
| Dec 19, 2:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 26 min |
| Dec 23, 7:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 24 min |
| Dec 23, 7:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 37 min |
| Dec 23, 8:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar | 28 min |
| Dec 23, 8:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 16 min |
| Dec 23, 8:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 30 min |
| Dec 23, 8:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 7 hr |
| Dec 23, 9:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 7 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:26 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 29 min |
| Dec 24, 3:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 21 min |
| Dec 24, 4:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 18 min |
| Dec 24, 6:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 27 min |
| Dec 31, 6:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 31 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pearl River County5
- Simpson County3
- Greene County3
- Harrison County3
- Forrest County3
- Yazoo County2
- Hancock County2
- Lamar County2
- Coahoma County1
- Attala County1
- Holmes County1
- Lincoln County1
- Copiah County1
- Lawrence County1
- Smith County1
- Newton County1
- Marion County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Perry County1
- Clarke County1
- Jackson 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.