Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2012
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, August 2012
9 tornado watches in August 2012. 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 August 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- August 28, 20123 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and 5 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 28, 12:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 28, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 16 more | 21 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 42 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 30, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 47 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pike County8
- Walthall County8
- Covington County8
- Forrest County8
- Jefferson Davis County8
- Jones County8
- Lamar County8
- Lawrence County8
- Lincoln County8
- Marion County8
- George County7
- Greene County7
- Hancock County7
- Harrison County7
- Jackson County7
- Pearl River County7
- Perry County7
- Stone County7
- Wayne County7
- Franklin County5
- Clarke County5
- Copiah County5
- Jasper County5
- Simpson County5
- Smith County5
- Amite County4
- Wilkinson County4
- Claiborne County4
- Adams County3
- Jefferson County3
- Attala County3
- Carroll County3
- Choctaw County3
- Clay County3
- Grenada County3
- Hinds County3
- Holmes County3
- Humphreys County3
- Kemper County3
- Lauderdale County3
27 more counties
- Leake County3
- Leflore County3
- Lowndes County3
- Madison County3
- Montgomery County3
- Neshoba County3
- Newton County3
- Noxubee County3
- Oktibbeha County3
- Rankin County3
- Scott County3
- Webster County3
- Winston County3
- Yazoo County3
- Bolivar County2
- Issaquena County2
- Sharkey County2
- Sunflower County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Coahoma County1
- Monroe County1
- Quitman County1
- Tallahatchie County1
- Yalobusha 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.