Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 2008
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, April 2008
20 tornado warnings in April 2008. 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 April 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 20
- Busiest day
- April 4, 200811 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 11:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 11:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 31 min |
| Apr 4, 11:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 52 min |
| Apr 4, 11:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo | 48 min |
| Apr 4, 12:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Rankin | 50 min |
| Apr 4, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Scott | 42 min |
| Apr 4, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Smith | 38 min |
| Apr 4, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 52 min |
| Apr 4, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 46 min |
| Apr 4, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 32 min |
| Apr 11, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln | 29 min |
| Apr 11, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln | 34 min |
| Apr 11, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 31 min |
| Apr 11, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 42 min |
| Apr 18, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 35 min |
| Apr 18, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lamar, Marion | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 39 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hinds County5
- Greene County4
- Copiah County4
- Warren County3
- Yazoo County3
- Madison County3
- Rankin County3
- Wayne County3
- Lincoln County3
- Scott County2
- Franklin County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lamar County2
- Issaquena County1
- Sharkey County1
- Attala County1
- Holmes County1
- Leake County1
- Smith County1
- Perry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Simpson County1
- Pike County1
- Walthall County1
- Marion County1
- Forrest 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.