Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, April 2017
8 tornado watches in April 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 April 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- April 30, 20173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 1:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bolivar, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 39 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:48 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene and 19 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, George, Greene, Jackson, Kemper, Lauderdale and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:49 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Claiborne, Franklin, Issaquena, Jefferson, Sharkey and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 7:32 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 9 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Warren County4
- Clarke County4
- Lauderdale County4
- Adams County3
- Claiborne County3
- Humphreys County3
- Issaquena County3
- Jefferson County3
- Sharkey County3
- Washington County3
- Amite County3
- Carroll County3
- Covington County3
- Forrest County3
- Grenada County3
- Holmes County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson Davis County3
- Jones County3
- Kemper County3
- Lamar County3
- Lawrence County3
- Marion County3
- Newton County3
- Noxubee County3
- Pearl River County3
- Pike County3
- Simpson County3
- Smith County3
- Walthall County3
- Yazoo County3
- George County3
- Greene County3
- Jackson County3
- Wayne County3
- Bolivar County2
- Leflore County2
- Sunflower County2
- Attala County2
- Choctaw County2
35 more counties
- Clay County2
- Copiah County2
- Franklin County2
- Hinds County2
- Leake County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lowndes County2
- Madison County2
- Montgomery County2
- Neshoba County2
- Oktibbeha County2
- Rankin County2
- Scott County2
- Webster County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Winston County2
- Hancock County2
- Harrison County2
- Perry County2
- Stone County2
- Alcorn County1
- Benton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Itawamba County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lee County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Tippah County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Union County1
- Yalobusha 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.