Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, September 2002
6 tornado watches in September 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 September 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- September 26, 20023 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 25, 3:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone | 10 hr |
| Sep 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone | 12 hr |
| Sep 25, 11:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone | 8 hr |
| Sep 26, 3:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 9:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George and 24 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- George County6
- Pearl River County6
- Stone County6
- Hancock County5
- Harrison County5
- Jackson County5
- Forrest County3
- Greene County3
- Lamar County3
- Marion County3
- Perry County3
- Wayne County3
- Clarke County2
- Covington County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson Davis County2
- Jones County2
- Smith County2
- Lawrence County1
- Simpson County1
- Walthall County1
- Attala County1
- Choctaw County1
- Grenada County1
- Kemper County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Leake County1
- Lowndes County1
- Montgomery County1
- Neshoba County1
- Newton County1
- Noxubee County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Scott County1
- Webster County1
- Winston 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.