Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2003

Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 2003

20 tornado watches in May 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 May 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
20
Busiest day
May 5, 20035 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Prentiss, Tate and 4 more6 hr
May 5, 1:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 15 more6 hr
May 5, 4:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Prentiss, Tate and 4 more6 hr
May 5, 9:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 31 more5 hr
May 5, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 29 more7 hr
May 5, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Coahoma, Tunica7 hr
May 5, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 23 more7 hr
May 6, 1:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee and 10 more6 hr
May 6, 7:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and 3 more5 hr
May 6, 11:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Prentiss, Tate and 4 more6 hr
May 7, 4:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 36 more6 hr
May 7, 7:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCKemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Monroe, Neshoba, Newton and 4 more5 hr
May 7, 10:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 28 more5 hr
May 7, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLowndes6 hr
May 10, 11:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 15 more6 hr
May 16, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw and 21 more7 hr
May 16, 9:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 25 more6 hr
May 17, 4:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 20 more5 hr
May 17, 9:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne and 42 more6 hr
May 17, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 28 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

38 more counties

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.