Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2020
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, February 2020
4 tornado watches in February 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 February 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- February 5, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 11:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 4:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Greene, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Jasper and 8 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clarke County3
- Covington County3
- Forrest County3
- Jasper County3
- Jefferson Davis County3
- Jones County3
- Lamar County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Marion County3
- Kemper County2
- Lawrence County2
- Leake County2
- Lowndes County2
- Neshoba County2
- Newton County2
- Noxubee County2
- Oktibbeha County2
- Rankin County2
- Scott County2
- Simpson County2
- Smith County2
- Winston County2
- Greene County2
- Perry County2
- Wayne County2
- Adams County1
- Amite County1
- Attala County1
- Carroll County1
- Choctaw County1
- Claiborne County1
- Clay County1
- Copiah County1
- Franklin County1
- Grenada County1
- Hinds County1
- Holmes County1
- Humphreys County1
- Issaquena County1
- Jefferson County1
21 more counties
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Montgomery County1
- Pike County1
- Sharkey County1
- Warren County1
- Webster County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Yazoo County1
- Alcorn County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Itawamba County1
- Lee County1
- Monroe County1
- Pontotoc County1
- Prentiss County1
- Tishomingo County1
- Union County1
- George County1
- Stone 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.