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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2001
36 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 36
- Busiest month
- November13 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- October 13, 20016 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Greene, Jasper, Jones and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Harrison, Jackson, Perry, Stone | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry, Stone | 6 hr |
| Mar 12, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Marion, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson | 5 hr |
| Mar 14, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington | 5 hr |
| Oct 11, 1:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne and 46 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 11, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 4:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Issaquena, Sharkey | 5 hr |
| Oct 13, 8:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay, DeSoto and 15 more | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 12:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 13, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Oct 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 24, 1:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Claiborne and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 24, 5:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 24, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Covington, Itawamba and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 26, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 26, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Prentiss, Tate and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 26, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 26, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 26, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 28, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 28, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Franklin, Grenada and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 29, 8:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 29, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone | 5 hr |
| Nov 29, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 13, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 13, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Forrest, Greene, Jones, Lamar, Lauderdale and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 16, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Washington | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Leflore County14
- Choctaw County13
- Holmes County13
- Humphreys County13
- Oktibbeha County13
- Sharkey County13
- Carroll County12
- Claiborne County12
- Hinds County12
- Jefferson County12
- Lawrence County12
- Montgomery County12
- Warren County12
- Washington County12
- Winston County12
- Yazoo County12
- Grenada County12
- Franklin County11
- Jefferson Davis County11
- Newton County11
- Scott County11
- Simpson County11
- Jones County11
- Perry County11
- Sunflower County11
- Tallahatchie County11
- Chickasaw County11
- Clay County11
- Monroe County11
- Adams County10
- Attala County10
- Copiah County10
- Issaquena County10
- Leake County10
- Neshoba County10
- Rankin County10
- Smith County10
- Walthall County10
- Covington County10
- Lauderdale County10
42 more counties
- Marion County10
- Benton County10
- Calhoun County10
- Lafayette County10
- Panola County10
- Yalobusha County10
- Itawamba County10
- Lee County10
- Union County10
- Webster County10
- Lincoln County9
- Lowndes County9
- Madison County9
- Pike County9
- Clarke County9
- Greene County9
- Jasper County9
- Lamar County9
- Noxubee County9
- Wayne County9
- Pontotoc County9
- Tippah County9
- George County9
- Forrest County8
- Kemper County8
- Bolivar County8
- Marshall County8
- Alcorn County8
- Prentiss County8
- Tishomingo County8
- Harrison County8
- Jackson County8
- Stone County8
- Wilkinson County7
- Quitman County7
- Tate County7
- Pearl River County7
- Amite County6
- Coahoma County6
- DeSoto County6
- Hancock County6
- Tunica 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.