Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, February 2016
7 tornado watches in February 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- February 23, 20163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 12:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 2, 1:18 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 37 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 2, 6:52 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 15, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke and 39 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 11:08 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 26 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hancock County5
- Harrison County5
- Jackson County5
- Pearl River County5
- Walthall County5
- Attala County4
- Choctaw County4
- Lowndes County4
- Noxubee County4
- Oktibbeha County4
- Winston County4
- Amite County4
- Clarke County4
- Copiah County4
- Covington County4
- Forrest County4
- Franklin County4
- George County4
- Greene County4
- Hinds County4
- Jasper County4
- Jefferson Davis County4
- Jones County4
- Kemper County4
- Lamar County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Lawrence County4
- Leake County4
- Lincoln County4
- Madison County4
- Marion County4
- Neshoba County4
- Newton County4
- Perry County4
- Pike County4
- Rankin County4
- Scott County4
- Simpson County4
- Smith County4
- Stone County4
42 more counties
- Wayne County4
- Wilkinson County4
- Clay County3
- Adams County3
- Claiborne County3
- Jefferson County3
- Carroll County2
- Grenada County2
- Holmes County2
- Montgomery County2
- Webster County2
- Warren County2
- Yazoo County2
- Alcorn County1
- Benton County1
- Bolivar County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Coahoma County1
- DeSoto County1
- Humphreys County1
- Itawamba County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lee County1
- Leflore County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Panola County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Quitman County1
- Sunflower County1
- Tallahatchie County1
- Tate County1
- Tippah County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Tunica County1
- Union County1
- Washington County1
- Yalobusha County1
- Issaquena County1
- Sharkey County1
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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.