Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 1998
8 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 7, 19983 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 6, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Itawamba, Monroe, Tishomingo | 6 hr |
| May 6, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Itawamba, Marshall, Prentiss and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 3:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Tishomingo | 5 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 27 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Washington | 5 hr |
| May 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 44 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Tishomingo County5
- Union County5
- Itawamba County4
- Monroe County4
- Alcorn County4
- Benton County4
- Marshall County4
- Prentiss County4
- Tippah County4
- DeSoto County3
- Bolivar County3
- Calhoun County3
- Carroll County3
- Chickasaw County3
- Choctaw County3
- Clay County3
- Coahoma County3
- Grenada County3
- Lafayette County3
- Lee County3
- Leflore County3
- Lowndes County3
- Montgomery County3
- Oktibbeha County3
- Panola County3
- Pontotoc County3
- Quitman County3
- Sunflower County3
- Tallahatchie County3
- Tate County3
- Tunica County3
- Washington County3
- Webster County3
- Yalobusha County3
- Attala County2
- Holmes County2
- Humphreys County2
- Kemper County2
- Neshoba County2
- Noxubee County2
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.