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Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, May 2021

33 tornado warnings in May 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest day
May 3, 202110 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningJANIssaquena, Warren39 min
May 2, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningJANIssaquena, Sharkey, Warren, Yazoo60 min
May 2, 5:56 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANCarroll, Holmes64 min
May 2, 6:03 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANClaiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson57 min
May 2, 6:12 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANYazoo42 min
May 2, 6:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANCarroll, Montgomery66 min
May 2, 6:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANAttala, Holmes60 min
May 2, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningJANHolmes55 min
May 2, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningJANCopiah, Hinds, Rankin53 min
May 2, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningJANGrenada, Montgomery38 min
May 2, 7:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANAttala, Choctaw, Montgomery53 min
May 2, 7:39 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANHinds, Rankin49 min
May 2, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw48 min
May 2, 7:44 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANAttala, Leake, Madison61 min
May 2, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningJANChoctaw, Montgomery, Webster40 min
May 2, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCalhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc46 min
May 2, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGChickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc47 min
May 2, 9:53 PM CDTTornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threatMEGItawamba, Lee, Prentiss, Tishomingo52 min
May 2, 10:37 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatMEGItawamba, Prentiss, Tishomingo38 min
May 4, 8:19 AM CDTTornado WarningJANCopiah, Rankin, Simpson56 min
May 4, 9:06 AM CDTTornado WarningJANRankin, Simpson54 min
May 4, 1:52 PM CDTTornado WarningJANRankin, Scott, Smith23 min
May 4, 2:22 PM CDTTornado WarningJANAttala, Holmes, Madison, Yazoo20 min
May 4, 2:35 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANHinds, Madison, Rankin25 min
May 4, 2:53 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANRankin, Scott, Smith18 min
May 4, 3:20 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJANLeake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott40 min
May 4, 3:32 PM CDTTornado WarningJANClarke, Jasper29 min
May 9, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLafayette, Marshall, Pontotoc, Union21 min
May 18, 3:10 PM CDTTornado WarningJANJefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson38 min
May 18, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningJANJasper, Smith47 min
May 18, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningJANJasper, Newton, Scott34 min
May 18, 3:57 PM CDTTornado WarningJANRankin, Simpson36 min
May 20, 8:58 AM CDTTornado WarningLIXAmite, Wilkinson13 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

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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.