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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2021

30 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
30
Busiest month
March11 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 17, 20215 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
Jan 25, 5:52 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay and 18 more7 hr
Feb 28, 2:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall and 5 more8 hr
Mar 17, 5:53 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma and 20 more7 hr
Mar 17, 11:36 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAttala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington and 28 more7 hr
Mar 17, 12:57 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 32 more6 hr
Mar 17, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more8 hr
Mar 17, 6:48 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAttala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Covington, Forrest and 20 more8 hr
Mar 17, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 8 more3 hr
Mar 25, 11:26 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAttala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke and 40 more9 hr
Mar 25, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn7 hr
Mar 27, 1:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall and 8 more7 hr
Mar 27, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Washington10 hr
Mar 27, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more7 hr
Apr 10, 12:16 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 15 more7 hr
Apr 23, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 15 more8 hr
Apr 24, 1:23 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Perry and 2 more8 hr
May 2, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 34 more5 hr
May 4, 9:18 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 26 more7 hr
May 4, 10:52 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Bolivar, Claiborne, Franklin, Grenada and 9 more7 hr
May 4, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 22 more6 hr
Jun 19, 1:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Stone9 hr
Aug 29, 6:07 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCovington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 12 more13 hr
Aug 29, 6:49 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCovington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison and 12 more11 hr
Aug 30, 5:48 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCGeorge, Greene, Harrison, Jackson, Perry, Stone and 1 more10 hr
Oct 27, 1:53 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 15 more8 hr
Dec 10, 3:07 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCCoahoma, DeSoto, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tate and 1 more11 hr
Dec 10, 6:21 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Pontotoc and 4 more10 hr
Dec 10, 10:44 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma and 21 more6 hr
Dec 11, 3:41 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCCalhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Grenada and 11 more6 hr
Dec 29, 12:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 34 more7 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. March 17, 20215tornado watches
  2. May 4, 20213tornado watches
  3. December 11, 20213tornado watches
  4. March 25, 20212tornado watches
  5. March 27, 20212tornado watches
  6. April 24, 20212tornado watches
  7. August 29, 20212tornado watches
  8. January 25, 20211tornado watches
  9. February 28, 20211tornado watches
  10. March 18, 20211tornado watches
  11. March 28, 20211tornado watches
  12. April 10, 20211tornado watches

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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. Rebuilt daily.