Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Warnings / 2017
Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, August 2017
48 tornado warnings in August 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 48
- Busiest day
- August 31, 201732 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 30, 10:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 10:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 10:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 19 min |
| Aug 30, 10:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar | 52 min |
| Aug 30, 10:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar | 62 min |
| Aug 30, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George | 26 min |
| Aug 30, 11:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 28 min |
| Aug 30, 11:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 41 min |
| Aug 30, 11:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 25 min |
| Aug 30, 11:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Marion | 65 min |
| Aug 30, 11:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 12:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Jackson | 31 min |
| Aug 30, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 57 min |
| Aug 30, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 22 min |
| Aug 30, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Warren | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 39 min |
| Aug 30, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Simpson | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 9:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tate | 18 min |
| Aug 31, 10:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba, Winston | 25 min |
| Aug 31, 10:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Winston | 33 min |
| Aug 31, 10:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 36 min |
| Aug 31, 10:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 22 min |
| Aug 31, 10:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 11:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Tippah, Union | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 11:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton | 53 min |
| Aug 31, 11:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Panola | 51 min |
| Aug 31, 11:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc, Union | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 11:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 11:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tate | 48 min |
| Aug 31, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Pontotoc, Tippah, Union | 32 min |
| Aug 31, 12:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Marshall | 44 min |
| Aug 31, 12:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Tippah | 42 min |
| Aug 31, 12:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Pontotoc | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 12:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Tippah, Union | 29 min |
| Aug 31, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Panola, Tate, Tunica | 42 min |
| Aug 31, 12:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 12:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton, Tippah | 50 min |
| Aug 31, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc, Union | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 52 min |
| Aug 31, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Prentiss, Tippah, Union | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 1:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 18 min |
| Aug 31, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tippah | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 2:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 28 min |
| Aug 31, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 34 min |
| Aug 31, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 41 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pontotoc County7
- Benton County7
- Tippah County7
- Union County7
- Forrest County5
- Lee County5
- Tate County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Lamar County3
- Jones County3
- Greene County3
- Winston County3
- Panola County3
- Covington County2
- George County2
- Jackson County2
- Kemper County2
- Noxubee County2
- Tunica County2
- Calhoun County2
- Lafayette County2
- Prentiss County2
- Pearl River County1
- Stone County1
- Perry County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Marion County1
- Hinds County1
- Warren County1
- Copiah County1
- Lawrence County1
- Simpson County1
- Neshoba County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Quitman County1
- Marshall County1
- DeSoto County1
- Itawamba County1
- Alcorn County1
2 more counties
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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.