Alert archive / Mississippi / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Mississippi, May 2021
4 tornado watches in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20213 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw and 34 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 9:18 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 26 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 10:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Bolivar, Claiborne, Franklin, Grenada and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock and 22 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Kemper County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Lowndes County3
- Neshoba County3
- Newton County3
- Noxubee County3
- Winston County3
- Attala County2
- Bolivar County2
- Carroll County2
- Choctaw County2
- Claiborne County2
- Clay County2
- Copiah County2
- Grenada County2
- Hinds County2
- Holmes County2
- Humphreys County2
- Issaquena County2
- Jefferson County2
- Leake County2
- Leflore County2
- Madison County2
- Montgomery County2
- Oktibbeha County2
- Rankin County2
- Scott County2
- Sharkey County2
- Sunflower County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Webster County2
- Yazoo County2
- Clarke County2
- Covington County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson Davis County2
- Jones County2
- Lawrence County2
- Smith County2
27 more counties
- Wayne County2
- Calhoun County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Coahoma County1
- Monroe County1
- Quitman County1
- Tallahatchie County1
- Yalobusha County1
- Lincoln County1
- Simpson County1
- Adams County1
- Amite County1
- Franklin County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Forrest County1
- George County1
- Greene County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Lamar County1
- Marion County1
- Pearl River County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Stone County1
- Walthall 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.