Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 2012
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, August 2012
72 tornado warnings in August 2012. 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 August 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 72
- Busiest day
- August 30, 201237 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Montgomery | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 12:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Scott | 9 min |
| Aug 19, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin | 24 min |
| Aug 28, 11:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 23 min |
| Aug 29, 3:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 4:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 21 min |
| Aug 29, 4:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 23 min |
| Aug 29, 4:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 20 min |
| Aug 29, 5:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 18 min |
| Aug 29, 5:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 5:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 5:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 5:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 22 min |
| Aug 29, 6:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 25 min |
| Aug 29, 7:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Perry, Stone | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison | 17 min |
| Aug 29, 9:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 11 min |
| Aug 29, 9:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 10:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 12:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 25 min |
| Aug 29, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 32 min |
| Aug 29, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Harrison | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 11:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 11:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 2:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 27 min |
| Aug 30, 2:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 4:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 5:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 24 min |
| Aug 30, 5:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 5:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 5:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 5:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 27 min |
| Aug 30, 6:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 30 min |
| Aug 30, 6:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba, Newton | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 6:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 6:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 53 min |
| Aug 30, 7:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 22 min |
| Aug 30, 7:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 31 min |
| Aug 30, 7:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 7:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale, Neshoba, Newton | 27 min |
| Aug 30, 7:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 8:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 32 min |
| Aug 30, 8:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 8:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 9:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Hancock | 28 min |
| Aug 30, 9:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke | 39 min |
| Aug 30, 10:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Aug 30, 3:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 36 min |
| Aug 30, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Union | 28 min |
| Aug 30, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest | 14 min |
| Aug 30, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Tate | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jasper | 50 min |
| Aug 30, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jasper, Jones, Smith | 37 min |
| Aug 30, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 31 min |
| Aug 30, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 42 min |
| Aug 30, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Newton | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Neshoba | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Winston | 32 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jackson County12
- Harrison County11
- Wayne County11
- Hancock County10
- Greene County9
- Clarke County8
- Perry County6
- Pearl River County6
- Lauderdale County6
- George County5
- Forrest County4
- Stone County3
- Jasper County3
- Neshoba County3
- Newton County3
- Attala County2
- Choctaw County2
- Kemper County2
- Covington County2
- Jones County2
- Lafayette County2
- Marshall County2
- Montgomery County1
- Leake County1
- Madison County1
- Scott County1
- Rankin County1
- Lamar County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Union County1
- Tate County1
- Smith County1
- Walthall County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Lawrence County1
- Marion County1
- Winston 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. Rebuilt daily.