Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2008
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 2008
16 tornado watches in May 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 16
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20084 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Holmes and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds, Humphreys and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto and 15 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 4:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 8:04 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 12:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Jasper, Jones, Kemper, Lauderdale and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 10:11 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah, Grenada, Hinds and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 3:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 10, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 10 hr |
| May 10, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 10, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Clay, Hinds, Issaquena, Kemper and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 14, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Franklin, Hancock, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence and 6 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 4:16 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 29 more | 7 hr |
| May 15, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 5 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grenada County8
- Leflore County8
- Bolivar County7
- Sunflower County7
- Washington County7
- Carroll County7
- Holmes County7
- Humphreys County7
- Calhoun County5
- Tallahatchie County5
- Yalobusha County5
- Attala County5
- Choctaw County5
- Madison County5
- Montgomery County5
- Noxubee County5
- Webster County5
- Yazoo County5
- Hinds County5
- Issaquena County5
- Rankin County5
- Sharkey County5
- Warren County5
- Alcorn County4
- Lafayette County4
- Pontotoc County4
- Tippah County4
- Union County4
- Chickasaw County4
- Clay County4
- Kemper County4
- Leake County4
- Lowndes County4
- Monroe County4
- Neshoba County4
- Oktibbeha County4
- Winston County4
- Adams County4
- Claiborne County4
- Copiah County4
42 more counties
- Franklin County4
- Lincoln County4
- Simpson County4
- Scott County4
- Benton County3
- Coahoma County3
- DeSoto County3
- Marshall County3
- Panola County3
- Quitman County3
- Tate County3
- Tunica County3
- Itawamba County3
- Lee County3
- Prentiss County3
- Tishomingo County3
- Jefferson County3
- Newton County3
- Amite County3
- Hancock County3
- Jefferson Davis County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Lawrence County3
- Marion County3
- Pearl River County3
- Pike County3
- Walthall County3
- Wayne County3
- Wilkinson County3
- Smith County2
- Clarke County2
- Covington County2
- Forrest County2
- George County2
- Greene County2
- Harrison County2
- Jackson County2
- Jasper County2
- Jones County2
- Lamar County2
- Perry County2
- Stone County2
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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.