Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, April 2003
9 tornado watches in April 2003. 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 April 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- April 6, 20034 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 1:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Jasper, Jones, Kemper, Lauderdale and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 6, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Claiborne, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 35 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 6 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Claiborne County6
- Hinds County6
- Holmes County6
- Issaquena County6
- Madison County6
- Rankin County6
- Sharkey County6
- Warren County6
- Yazoo County6
- Attala County5
- Carroll County5
- Copiah County5
- Covington County5
- Humphreys County5
- Jefferson County5
- Jefferson Davis County5
- Leflore County5
- Simpson County5
- Sunflower County5
- Washington County5
- Adams County4
- Franklin County4
- Lawrence County4
- Leake County4
- Lincoln County4
- Montgomery County4
- Scott County4
- Smith County4
- Choctaw County4
- Clarke County4
- Jasper County4
- Kemper County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Neshoba County4
- Newton County4
- Noxubee County4
- Oktibbeha County4
- Winston County4
- Jones County3
- Wayne County3
35 more counties
- Tallahatchie County3
- Marion County2
- Lowndes County2
- Amite County2
- Grenada County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Yalobusha County2
- Bolivar County2
- Coahoma County2
- DeSoto County2
- Panola County2
- Quitman County2
- Tunica County2
- Webster County2
- Alcorn County1
- Benton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lee County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Tate County1
- Tippah County1
- Union County1
- Forrest County1
- George County1
- Greene County1
- Lamar County1
- Pearl River County1
- Perry County1
- Stone 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.