Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2017
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, August 2017
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 30, 20171 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah and 40 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay, DeSoto and 16 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County1
- Amite County1
- Attala County1
- Claiborne County1
- Clarke County1
- Copiah County1
- Covington County1
- Forrest County1
- Franklin County1
- George County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Hinds County1
- Holmes County1
- Humphreys County1
- Issaquena County1
- Jackson County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Jones County1
- Kemper County1
- Lamar County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Lawrence County1
- Leake County1
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Neshoba County1
- Newton County1
- Pearl River County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Rankin County1
- Scott County1
- Sharkey County1
- Simpson County1
- Smith County1
28 more counties
- Stone County1
- Walthall County1
- Warren County1
- Wayne County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Yazoo County1
- Alcorn County1
- Benton County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- DeSoto County1
- Itawamba County1
- Lafayette County1
- Lee County1
- Lowndes County1
- Marshall County1
- Monroe County1
- Noxubee County1
- Oktibbeha County1
- Panola County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Tate 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.