Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, February 1997
8 tornado watches in February 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- February 21, 19974 tornado watches
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 20, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw, Coahoma and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Greene, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Itawamba, Lowndes, Monroe, Noxubee, Tishomingo | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll and 57 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County3
- Bolivar County3
- Calhoun County3
- Carroll County3
- Choctaw County3
- Coahoma County3
- DeSoto County3
- Grenada County3
- Lafayette County3
- Leflore County3
- Marshall County3
- Montgomery County3
- Panola County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Quitman County3
- Sunflower County3
- Tallahatchie County3
- Tate County3
- Tunica County3
- Webster County3
- Yalobusha County3
- Attala County3
- Claiborne County3
- Copiah County3
- Hinds County3
- Holmes County3
- Humphreys County3
- Leake County3
- Madison County3
- Rankin County3
- Scott County3
- Sharkey County3
- Simpson County3
- Warren County3
- Yazoo County3
- Smith County3
- Winston County3
- Alcorn County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Clay County3
36 more counties
- Itawamba County3
- Lee County3
- Monroe County3
- Oktibbeha County3
- Prentiss County3
- Tippah County3
- Tishomingo County3
- Union County3
- Washington County2
- Amite County2
- Franklin County2
- Issaquena County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
- Pike County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Covington County2
- Forrest County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson Davis County2
- Jones County2
- Lamar County2
- Marion County2
- Neshoba County2
- Newton County2
- Noxubee County2
- Walthall County2
- Lowndes County2
- Adams County1
- Clarke County1
- Greene County1
- Kemper County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Perry County1
- Wayne County1
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.