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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 1998

38 tornado watches in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
38
Busiest month
April11 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 8, 19983 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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
Jan 7, 4:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCForrest, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry and 1 more6 hr
Feb 10, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 12 more5 hr
Feb 10, 5:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 41 more6 hr
Feb 26, 9:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 30 more7 hr
Feb 26, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClarke, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 7 more6 hr
Mar 7, 3:45 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCHancock, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson6 hr
Mar 7, 3:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Jefferson, Wilkinson4 hr
Mar 27, 10:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCTunica5 hr
Mar 31, 4:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Issaquena, Jefferson, Wilkinson5 hr
Apr 8, 7:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Coahoma and 23 more6 hr
Apr 8, 11:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCChickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe and 3 more5 hr
Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 32 more6 hr
Apr 8, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 36 more7 hr
Apr 16, 10:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah and 2 more6 hr
Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 30 more6 hr
Apr 16, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 22 more4 hr
Apr 18, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCForrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 4 more5 hr
Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBenton6 hr
Apr 27, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and 5 more5 hr
Apr 27, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 31 more3 hr
May 6, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCItawamba, Monroe, Tishomingo6 hr
May 6, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Itawamba, Marshall, Prentiss and 3 more6 hr
May 7, 12:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 28 more6 hr
May 7, 3:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo and 1 more6 hr
May 7, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCTishomingo5 hr
May 9, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 27 more6 hr
May 9, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCWashington5 hr
May 9, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 44 more6 hr
Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah and 2 more6 hr
Jun 15, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClaiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Hinds, Issaquena and 20 more5 hr
Sep 12, 9:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Copiah, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln and 3 more6 hr
Sep 27, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry, Stone12 hr
Sep 28, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCClarke, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Jasper and 4 more12 hr
Sep 28, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClarke, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Jasper and 4 more12 hr
Sep 28, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLowndes10 hr
Nov 10, 6:15 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 31 more5 hr
Nov 10, 10:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington and 28 more5 hr
Nov 10, 11:15 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River, Stone5 hr

By county

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

42 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 8, 19983tornado watches
  2. April 16, 19983tornado watches
  3. May 7, 19983tornado watches
  4. September 28, 19983tornado watches
  5. November 10, 19983tornado watches
  6. February 10, 19982tornado watches
  7. February 26, 19982tornado watches
  8. March 7, 19982tornado watches
  9. April 28, 19982tornado watches
  10. May 9, 19982tornado watches
  11. January 7, 19981tornado watches
  12. March 28, 19981tornado watches

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.