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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2000
32 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 32
- Busiest month
- January7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 3, 20004 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Leflore, Marshall, Panola and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Jasper, Jones, Kemper, Lauderdale, Noxubee and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Copiah, Hinds and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Coahoma and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 46 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada, Lafayette and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Clay, Covington, Forrest, Greene and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, Franklin and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Wilkinson | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Montgomery and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson | 6 hr |
| Nov 6, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Perry and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 8, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 59 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 8, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Covington, Forrest and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone | 5 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 14 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 16, 10:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Covington and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greene | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Covington County14
- Newton County14
- Scott County14
- Smith County14
- Clarke County14
- Jasper County14
- Jones County14
- Lauderdale County14
- Wayne County14
- Marion County13
- Walthall County13
- Forrest County13
- Lamar County13
- Neshoba County12
- Pike County12
- Simpson County12
- Kemper County12
- Perry County12
- Jefferson Davis County11
- Leake County11
- Noxubee County11
- Greene County11
- Lawrence County10
- Winston County10
- Clay County9
- Hinds County9
- Monroe County9
- Oktibbeha County9
- Rankin County9
- Yazoo County9
- Pearl River County9
- Leflore County8
- Amite County8
- Choctaw County8
- Copiah County8
- Lincoln County8
- Montgomery County8
- Itawamba County8
- George County8
- Hancock County8
42 more counties
- Harrison County8
- Jackson County8
- Stone County8
- Lowndes County8
- Attala County7
- Carroll County7
- Chickasaw County7
- Claiborne County7
- Holmes County7
- Madison County7
- Warren County7
- Webster County7
- Wilkinson County7
- Lee County7
- Pontotoc County7
- Panola County6
- Quitman County6
- Sunflower County6
- Tallahatchie County6
- Calhoun County6
- Franklin County6
- Humphreys County6
- Issaquena County6
- Jefferson County6
- Sharkey County6
- Yalobusha County6
- Alcorn County6
- Lafayette County6
- Prentiss County6
- Tippah County6
- Tishomingo County6
- Union County6
- Coahoma County5
- DeSoto County5
- Marshall County5
- Tate County5
- Tunica County5
- Washington County5
- Adams County5
- Grenada County5
- Benton County5
- Bolivar County4
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.