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Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, February 2020
16 tornado warnings in February 2020. 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 February 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 16
- Busiest day
- February 5, 202012 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake | 22 min |
| Feb 5, 2:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Lawrence, Lincoln, Rankin, Simpson | 53 min |
| Feb 5, 2:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 3:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Simpson, Smith | 58 min |
| Feb 5, 3:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Copiah, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Simpson | 22 min |
| Feb 5, 3:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 54 min |
| Feb 5, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake, Madison | 65 min |
| Feb 5, 3:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 34 min |
| Feb 5, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Winston | 35 min |
| Feb 5, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 19 min |
| Feb 5, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba | 56 min |
| Feb 5, 5:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes, Oktibbeha | 49 min |
| Feb 5, 10:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton, Smith | 55 min |
| Feb 5, 11:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 34 min |
| Feb 10, 8:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Yazoo | 56 min |
| Feb 12, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LIX | Walthall | 10 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Simpson County4
- Leake County3
- Smith County3
- Copiah County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
- Yazoo County2
- Attala County2
- Madison County2
- Walthall County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Rankin County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Holmes County1
- Choctaw County1
- Winston County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Neshoba County1
- Clay County1
- Lowndes County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Clarke County1
- Jasper County1
- Newton County1
- Hinds 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.