Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, December 2016
2 tornado watches in December 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 December 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- December 17, 20161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica | 7 hr |
| Dec 17, 8:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 31 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County2
- Marshall County2
- Tate County2
- DeSoto County1
- Tunica County1
- Alcorn County1
- Attala County1
- Bolivar County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Choctaw County1
- Clay County1
- Coahoma County1
- Grenada County1
- Holmes County1
- Humphreys County1
- Issaquena County1
- Itawamba County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lee County1
- Leflore County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Panola County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Quitman County1
- Sharkey County1
- Sunflower County1
- Tallahatchie County1
- Tippah County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Webster County1
- Yalobusha 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.