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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2018

19 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
April7 tornado watches
Busiest day
April 14, 20185 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
Feb 24, 3:16 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Marshall, Prentiss and 4 more8 hr
Mar 19, 3:28 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlcorn, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee and 10 more9 hr
Mar 28, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 29 more8 hr
Apr 3, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDeSoto, Tunica7 hr
Apr 6, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 21 more8 hr
Apr 13, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Bolivar, Claiborne, Franklin, Issaquena, Jefferson and 4 more3 hr
Apr 13, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more10 hr
Apr 14, 6:57 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 30 more7 hr
Apr 14, 10:36 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry, Stone and 1 more8 hr
Apr 14, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene6 hr
Jul 20, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more8 hr
Oct 31, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Wilkinson8 hr
Oct 31, 11:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Choctaw and 58 more9 hr
Nov 5, 4:06 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Carroll, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena and 8 more7 hr
Nov 5, 7:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more8 hr
Nov 12, 4:34 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone7 hr
Nov 12, 11:46 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Stone7 hr
Dec 27, 9:29 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin and 19 more9 hr
Dec 31, 11:47 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 31 more5 hr

By county

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

42 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 14, 20185tornado watches
  2. November 1, 20182tornado watches
  3. November 12, 20182tornado watches
  4. February 24, 20181tornado watches
  5. March 19, 20181tornado watches
  6. March 28, 20181tornado watches
  7. April 3, 20181tornado watches
  8. April 6, 20181tornado watches
  9. July 20, 20181tornado watches
  10. November 5, 20181tornado watches
  11. November 6, 20181tornado watches
  12. December 27, 20181tornado 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.