Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, March 2003
6 tornado watches in March 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 March 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- March 5, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Jones, Lauderdale, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Washington, Wilkinson | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:05 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Copiah and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, George, Greene, Jackson, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 38 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jones County4
- Covington County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson Davis County3
- Lamar County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Leake County3
- Marion County3
- Neshoba County3
- Newton County3
- Pearl River County3
- Scott County3
- Simpson County3
- Smith County3
- Clarke County3
- Wayne County3
- Adams County2
- Amite County2
- Claiborne County2
- Copiah County2
- Franklin County2
- Hinds County2
- Issaquena County2
- Jefferson County2
- Kemper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Pike County2
- Rankin County2
- Sharkey County2
- Walthall County2
- Warren County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Yazoo County2
- Washington County2
- Attala County2
- Choctaw County2
- Forrest County2
- Montgomery County2
29 more counties
- Oktibbeha County2
- Perry County2
- Stone County2
- Winston County2
- George County2
- Greene County2
- Carroll County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Holmes County1
- Humphreys County1
- Jackson County1
- Alcorn County1
- Benton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- Itawamba County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Monroe County1
- Noxubee County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Tippah County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Union County1
- Webster 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.