Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2009
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 2009
5 tornado watches in May 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20092 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, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 2:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene | 5 hr |
| May 4, 7:33 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 12:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Clay, Coahoma and 16 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bolivar County3
- Carroll County3
- Clay County3
- Grenada County3
- Leflore County3
- Montgomery County3
- Sunflower County3
- Washington County3
- Webster County3
- Attala County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Choctaw County2
- Holmes County2
- Humphreys County2
- Issaquena County2
- Itawamba County2
- Kemper County2
- Leake County2
- Lee County2
- Lowndes County2
- Madison County2
- Monroe County2
- Neshoba County2
- Noxubee County2
- Oktibbeha County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Sharkey County2
- Tallahatchie County2
- Winston County2
- Yalobusha County2
- Yazoo County2
- George County2
- Greene County2
- Hinds County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Newton County1
- Rankin County1
- Scott County1
- Warren 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.