Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2011
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 2011
5 tornado watches in May 2011. 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 25, 20112 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 1, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Marshall, Prentiss and 4 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 12:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, DeSoto, Itawamba and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 33 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alcorn County3
- Benton County3
- DeSoto County3
- Marshall County3
- Prentiss County3
- Tate County3
- Tippah County3
- Tishomingo County3
- Coahoma County2
- Tunica County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chickasaw County2
- Itawamba County2
- Lafayette County2
- Lee County2
- Monroe County2
- Panola County2
- Pontotoc County2
- Quitman County2
- Tallahatchie County2
- Union County2
- Yalobusha County2
- Carroll County2
- Grenada County2
- Holmes County2
- Humphreys County2
- Leflore County2
- Sunflower County2
- Washington County2
- Bolivar County1
- Adams County1
- Attala County1
- Choctaw County1
- Claiborne County1
- Clay County1
- Copiah County1
- Franklin County1
- Hinds County1
- Issaquena County1
- Jasper County1
22 more counties
- Jefferson County1
- Kemper County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Leake County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lowndes County1
- Madison County1
- Montgomery County1
- Neshoba County1
- Newton County1
- Noxubee County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Rankin County1
- Scott County1
- Sharkey County1
- Simpson County1
- Smith County1
- Warren County1
- Webster County1
- Winston County1
- Yazoo 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.