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Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, May 2026

23 tornado warnings in May 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 23
Busiest day: May 7, 20269 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, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	28 min
May 6, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Adams	63 min
May 6, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	49 min
May 6, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Wilkinson	49 min
May 6, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	JAN	Adams, Franklin	63 min
May 6, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lamar, Marion	58 min
May 6, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LIX	Amite, Wilkinson	31 min
May 6, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Forrest, Lamar	34 min
May 6, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	JAN	Franklin, Lincoln	65 min
May 6, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	JAN	Forrest	22 min
May 6, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	35 min
May 6, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	40 min
May 6, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedConsiderable damage threat	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln	61 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jefferson Davis	60 min
May 6, 9:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Covington, Jones	31 min
May 6, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Pike, Walthall	40 min
May 6, 10:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion	67 min
May 21, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River	14 min
May 21, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Amite	21 min
May 22, 4:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds	21 min
May 22, 8:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Lauderdale	8 min
May 22, 8:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	39 min
May 24, 4:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LIX	Jackson	20 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.