Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 2009
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, May 2009
41 tornado warnings in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 41
- Busiest day
- May 3, 200915 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 2, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 37 min |
| May 2, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 19 min |
| May 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 33 min |
| May 2, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Holmes, Montgomery | 58 min |
| May 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore | 42 min |
| May 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys | 60 min |
| May 2, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 55 min |
| May 2, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 37 min |
| May 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Winston | 32 min |
| May 2, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys | 54 min |
| May 2, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 51 min |
| May 2, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo | 51 min |
| May 2, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala | 31 min |
| May 2, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Yazoo | 58 min |
| May 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Winston | 44 min |
| May 2, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes | 54 min |
| May 2, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Winston | 50 min |
| May 3, 6:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison | 36 min |
| May 3, 9:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson, Warren | 56 min |
| May 3, 10:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith | 44 min |
| May 3, 11:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 38 min |
| May 3, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 31 min |
| May 4, 1:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 22 min |
| May 6, 12:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Montgomery, Webster | 41 min |
| May 6, 2:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tunica | 38 min |
| May 6, 2:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 43 min |
| May 6, 3:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee, Tishomingo | 22 min |
| May 6, 4:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Tate, Tippah | 45 min |
| May 6, 4:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 42 min |
| May 6, 7:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Oktibbeha, Winston | 34 min |
| May 6, 7:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha | 49 min |
| May 6, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 63 min |
| May 6, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 19 min |
| May 6, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 28 min |
| May 9, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Yazoo | 52 min |
| May 10, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 54 min |
| May 10, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Warren, Yazoo | 43 min |
| May 10, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 30 min |
| May 10, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton, Scott | 45 min |
| May 10, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 57 min |
| May 24, 3:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 44 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Holmes County10
- Attala County8
- Humphreys County5
- Winston County5
- Choctaw County4
- Yazoo County4
- Itawamba County3
- Noxubee County3
- Oktibbeha County3
- Carroll County2
- Montgomery County2
- Madison County2
- Warren County2
- Forrest County2
- Tunica County2
- Tate County2
- Lafayette County2
- Scott County2
- Newton County2
- Leflore County1
- Leake County1
- Claiborne County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Lawrence County1
- Simpson County1
- Smith County1
- Jasper County1
- Clarke County1
- Webster County1
- DeSoto County1
- Lee County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Benton County1
- Marshall County1
- Tippah County1
- Panola County1
- Lowndes County1
- Franklin County1
- Lincoln 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.