Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, August 2020
5 tornado watches in August 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- August 27, 20203 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 26, 9:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Wilkinson | 11 hr |
| Aug 27, 7:47 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Bolivar, Claiborne, Coahoma, Copiah and 22 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 28, 10:31 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Itawamba, Monroe | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County2
- Wilkinson County2
- Bolivar County2
- Coahoma County2
- Holmes County2
- Humphreys County2
- Leflore County2
- Sharkey County2
- Sunflower County2
- Washington County2
- Yazoo County2
- Calhoun County2
- Itawamba County2
- Monroe County2
- Amite County1
- Claiborne County1
- Copiah County1
- Franklin County1
- Hinds County1
- Issaquena County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Pike County1
- Rankin County1
- Simpson County1
- Walthall County1
- Warren County1
- Carroll County1
- DeSoto County1
- Grenada County1
- Lafayette County1
- Marshall County1
- Montgomery County1
- Panola County1
- Quitman County1
- Tallahatchie 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.