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Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, May 2025
18 tornado warnings in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 20, 20257 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 6, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 18 min |
| May 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Amite, Wilkinson | 40 min |
| May 18, 2:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore, Montgomery | 49 min |
| May 18, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Montgomery | 20 min |
| May 18, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 25 min |
| May 20, 8:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Benton | 46 min |
| May 20, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss, Tishomingo | 32 min |
| May 20, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Washington | 57 min |
| May 20, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 41 min |
| May 20, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington | 53 min |
| May 20, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 20 min |
| May 20, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Pontotoc | 18 min |
| May 20, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Yazoo | 28 min |
| May 26, 12:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LIX | Wilkinson | 23 min |
| May 26, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott | 15 min |
| May 26, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 39 min |
| May 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Kemper, Lauderdale | 33 min |
| May 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 18 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wilkinson County3
- Lafayette County3
- Carroll County2
- Montgomery County2
- Washington County2
- Sharkey County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Amite County1
- Leflore County1
- Attala County1
- Choctaw County1
- DeSoto County1
- Benton County1
- Alcorn County1
- Prentiss County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Panola County1
- Tallahatchie County1
- Yalobusha County1
- Humphreys County1
- Union County1
- Calhoun County1
- Yazoo County1
- Rankin County1
- Scott County1
- Clarke County1
- Kemper County1
- Wayne 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.