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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2016

24 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
24
Busiest month
March8 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 31, 20165 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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
Jan 21, 2:14 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 26 more6 hr
Jan 21, 6:53 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and 3 more10 hr
Feb 2, 12:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more9 hr
Feb 2, 1:18 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 37 more6 hr
Feb 2, 6:52 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 37 more8 hr
Feb 15, 9:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 39 more8 hr
Feb 23, 11:08 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more7 hr
Feb 23, 2:13 PM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCClarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 12 more8 hr
Feb 23, 2:20 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 26 more6 hr
Mar 13, 7:11 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada, Holmes and 16 more6 hr
Mar 24, 12:18 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJackson7 hr
Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada and 18 more8 hr
Mar 30, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 18 more6 hr
Mar 31, 3:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 10 more6 hr
Mar 31, 8:43 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene, Perry, Stone5 hr
Mar 31, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun and 60 more7 hr
Mar 31, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCWayne7 hr
Nov 28, 2:49 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 39 more6 hr
Nov 29, 1:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 27 more7 hr
Nov 29, 3:48 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 12 more7 hr
Nov 29, 8:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 47 more8 hr
Nov 30, 4:57 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCClarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 12 more7 hr
Dec 17, 1:42 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBenton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica7 hr
Dec 17, 8:58 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 31 more6 hr

By county

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

42 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 31, 20165tornado watches
  2. February 23, 20163tornado watches
  3. February 2, 20162tornado watches
  4. November 29, 20162tornado watches
  5. November 30, 20162tornado watches
  6. January 21, 20161tornado watches
  7. January 22, 20161tornado watches
  8. February 3, 20161tornado watches
  9. February 15, 20161tornado watches
  10. March 14, 20161tornado watches
  11. March 24, 20161tornado watches
  12. March 30, 20161tornado watches

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.