Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2016
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, March 2016
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 31, 20165 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada, Holmes and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Jones and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 8:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun and 60 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Wayne | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bolivar County4
- Carroll County4
- Grenada County4
- Holmes County4
- Humphreys County4
- Issaquena County4
- Leflore County4
- Montgomery County4
- Sharkey County4
- Sunflower County4
- Washington County4
- Yazoo County4
- Coahoma County3
- DeSoto County3
- Lafayette County3
- Marshall County3
- Panola County3
- Quitman County3
- Tallahatchie County3
- Tate County3
- Tunica County3
- Yalobusha County3
- Claiborne County3
- Warren County3
- Adams County2
- Attala County2
- Choctaw County2
- Copiah County2
- Franklin County2
- Hinds County2
- Jefferson County2
- Madison County2
- Rankin County2
- Webster County2
- Covington County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson Davis County2
- Jones County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
40 more counties
- Simpson County2
- Smith County2
- Jackson County1
- Amite County1
- Forrest County1
- Lamar County1
- Marion County1
- Pearl River County1
- Pike County1
- Walthall County1
- Wilkinson County1
- George County1
- Greene County1
- Perry County1
- Stone County1
- Alcorn County1
- Benton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clarke County1
- Clay County1
- Itawamba County1
- Kemper County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Leake County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Monroe County1
- Neshoba County1
- Newton County1
- Noxubee County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Scott County1
- Tippah County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Union County1
- Winston County1
- Wayne 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.