Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 2002
1 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20021 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 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke and 27 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Attala County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Grenada County1
- Hinds County1
- Holmes County1
- Itawamba County1
- Jasper County1
- Kemper County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Leake County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Madison County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Neshoba County1
- Newton County1
- Noxubee County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Rankin County1
- Scott County1
- Smith County1
- Warren County1
- Webster County1
- Winston County1
- Yalobusha County1
- Yazoo County1
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.