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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, March 2021
11 tornado watches in March 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 March 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest day
- March 17, 20215 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 5:53 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 17, 11:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 17, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Covington, Forrest and 20 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lafayette and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clarke and 40 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Washington | 10 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Alcorn County6
- Prentiss County6
- Tishomingo County6
- Benton County5
- Calhoun County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Itawamba County5
- Lafayette County5
- Lee County5
- Marshall County5
- Monroe County5
- Pontotoc County5
- Tippah County5
- Union County5
- Bolivar County4
- Coahoma County4
- DeSoto County4
- Grenada County4
- Panola County4
- Quitman County4
- Tate County4
- Tunica County4
- Attala County4
- Choctaw County4
- Clay County4
- Oktibbeha County4
- Webster County4
- Leflore County3
- Sunflower County3
- Tallahatchie County3
- Yalobusha County3
- Clarke County3
- Covington County3
- Forrest County3
- Greene County3
- Jasper County3
- Jones County3
- Kemper County3
- Lamar County3
- Lauderdale County3
42 more counties
- Leake County3
- Lowndes County3
- Neshoba County3
- Newton County3
- Noxubee County3
- Perry County3
- Scott County3
- Smith County3
- Wayne County3
- Winston County3
- Carroll County3
- Holmes County3
- Montgomery County3
- Washington County3
- Yazoo County3
- Copiah County2
- Hinds County2
- Jefferson Davis County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Rankin County2
- Simpson County2
- Humphreys County2
- Issaquena County2
- Sharkey County2
- Adams County1
- Claiborne County1
- Franklin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Warren County1
- Amite County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Pearl River County1
- Pike County1
- Walthall County1
- Wilkinson County1
- George County1
- Stone County1
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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.