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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2017

26 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
26
Busiest month
April8 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 30, 20173 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 2, 11:22 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 34 more9 hr
Jan 20, 11:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 29 more8 hr
Jan 21, 3:29 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 14 more6 hr
Jan 21, 6:51 PM CSTTornado Watch PDSSPCGeorge, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne8 hr
Jan 21, 7:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Clarke and 33 more4 hr
Feb 7, 7:54 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 34 more11 hr
Mar 1, 11:48 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 19 more6 hr
Mar 29, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Copiah and 19 more8 hr
Apr 2, 1:34 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Bolivar, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson and 5 more7 hr
Apr 2, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 39 more9 hr
Apr 3, 1:48 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene and 19 more10 hr
Apr 5, 6:54 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCClarke, George, Greene, Jackson, Kemper, Lauderdale and 2 more8 hr
Apr 26, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena and 6 more5 hr
Apr 30, 1:49 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Claiborne, Franklin, Issaquena, Jefferson, Sharkey and 3 more7 hr
Apr 30, 7:32 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 42 more7 hr
Apr 30, 10:36 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 9 more8 hr
May 27, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee and 9 more2 hr
Jun 20, 10:24 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Stone12 hr
Jun 21, 10:01 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 9 more9 hr
Jun 21, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCForrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 5 more8 hr
Jun 22, 2:57 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 37 more10 hr
Jun 22, 1:04 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 54 more9 hr
Jun 23, 12:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston6 hr
Aug 30, 10:22 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah and 40 more8 hr
Aug 31, 11:13 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay, DeSoto and 16 more11 hr
Oct 7, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene, Jackson7 hr

By county

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

39 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 30, 20173tornado watches
  2. June 21, 20173tornado watches
  3. January 21, 20172tornado watches
  4. January 22, 20172tornado watches
  5. April 2, 20172tornado watches
  6. June 22, 20172tornado watches
  7. January 2, 20171tornado watches
  8. February 7, 20171tornado watches
  9. March 1, 20171tornado watches
  10. March 30, 20171tornado watches
  11. April 3, 20171tornado watches
  12. April 5, 20171tornado 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.