Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 1997
10 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 2, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun and 60 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Wayne | 6 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams | 7 hr |
| May 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 58 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 56 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeSoto | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Marshall, Panola, Quitman and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 29 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Covington and 31 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sunflower County6
- Attala County5
- Bolivar County5
- Carroll County5
- Choctaw County5
- Clarke County5
- Clay County5
- Coahoma County5
- Grenada County5
- Holmes County5
- Humphreys County5
- Jefferson Davis County5
- Leake County5
- Leflore County5
- Lowndes County5
- Madison County5
- Monroe County5
- Montgomery County5
- Neshoba County5
- Oktibbeha County5
- Quitman County5
- Rankin County5
- Scott County5
- Simpson County5
- Smith County5
- Tallahatchie County5
- Washington County5
- Webster County5
- Winston County5
- Yazoo County5
- Adams County4
- Calhoun County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Claiborne County4
- Copiah County4
- Covington County4
- DeSoto County4
- Hinds County4
- Issaquena County4
- Jasper County4
36 more counties
- Jefferson County4
- Jones County4
- Kemper County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Lawrence County4
- Lincoln County4
- Newton County4
- Noxubee County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Sharkey County4
- Warren County4
- Yalobusha County4
- Wayne County4
- Franklin County3
- Itawamba County3
- Lee County3
- Marshall County3
- Panola County3
- Tate County3
- Tunica County3
- Forrest County3
- Greene County3
- Lamar County3
- Marion County3
- Perry County3
- Alcorn County2
- Benton County2
- Lafayette County2
- Prentiss County2
- Tippah County2
- Union County2
- Amite County2
- Pike County2
- Walthall County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Tishomingo 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.