Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, December 2002
11 tornado watches in December 2002. 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 December 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- December 19, 20026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada and 13 more | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 8:55 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Grenada, Leflore, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Washington and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 19, 2:25 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Holmes, Humphreys and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 19, 6:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 19, 9:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 19, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington and 25 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 23, 8:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Forrest, George, Greene, Harrison, Jackson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 31, 2:50 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 4 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jasper County5
- Forrest County5
- George County5
- Greene County5
- Hancock County5
- Harrison County5
- Jackson County5
- Lamar County5
- Pearl River County5
- Perry County5
- Stone County5
- Holmes County4
- Humphreys County4
- Leflore County4
- Washington County4
- Covington County4
- Jefferson Davis County4
- Lawrence County4
- Leake County4
- Marion County4
- Pike County4
- Rankin County4
- Scott County4
- Simpson County4
- Smith County4
- Walthall County4
- Clarke County4
- Jones County4
- Wayne County4
- Carroll County3
- Sunflower County3
- Attala County3
- Choctaw County3
- Claiborne County3
- Issaquena County3
- Sharkey County3
- Warren County3
- Yazoo County3
- Copiah County3
- Kemper County3
32 more counties
- Lincoln County3
- Madison County3
- Neshoba County3
- Newton County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Benton County2
- Bolivar County2
- Coahoma County2
- DeSoto County2
- Grenada County2
- Lafayette County2
- Marshall County2
- Panola County2
- Quitman County2
- Tallahatchie County2
- Tate County2
- Tunica County2
- Yalobusha County2
- Montgomery County2
- Adams County2
- Amite County2
- Franklin County2
- Hinds County2
- Jefferson County2
- Noxubee County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Winston County2
- Tippah County1
- Union County1
- Lowndes County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Webster 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.