Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, February 2003
4 tornado watches in February 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 February 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- February 22, 20032 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Covington, Forrest and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Franklin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 12:35 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 32 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marion County4
- Covington County3
- Forrest County3
- Jefferson Davis County3
- Jones County3
- Lamar County3
- Lawrence County3
- Pearl River County3
- Perry County3
- Stone County3
- Walthall County3
- Wayne County3
- Attala County2
- Choctaw County2
- Clarke County2
- Jasper County2
- Kemper County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Leake County2
- Lowndes County2
- Montgomery County2
- Neshoba County2
- Newton County2
- Noxubee County2
- Oktibbeha County2
- Scott County2
- Simpson County2
- Smith County2
- Webster County2
- Winston County2
- Amite County2
- Franklin County2
- Lincoln County2
- Pike County2
- Wilkinson County2
- George County2
- Greene County2
- Hancock County2
- Harrison County2
- Jackson County2
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.