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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2024
26 tornado watches in 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 26
- Busiest month
- May7 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 12, 20243 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 16 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:57 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 62 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:18 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 11, 6:56 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 12, 1:41 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 7 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:43 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Amite, Covington, Forrest, Franklin, George, Greene and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clarke, Jasper, Jones, Kemper, Lauderdale, Newton and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:06 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Choctaw, Clarke, Clay and 39 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 8, 12:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 5 hr |
| May 8, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tippah, Tunica | 7 hr |
| May 9, 3:02 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Itawamba and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 16, 10:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River | 4 hr |
| May 26, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica | 5 hr |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bolivar | 4 hr |
| May 27, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River | 10 hr |
| Sep 11, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Forrest, George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 28, 7:38 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:17 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 43 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 28, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | George, Greene, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 28, 8:09 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc and 2 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pearl River County11
- Hancock County10
- Forrest County10
- Jones County10
- Lamar County10
- Harrison County9
- Jackson County9
- Covington County9
- Franklin County9
- Jefferson Davis County9
- Lawrence County9
- Lincoln County9
- Marion County9
- Amite County8
- Pike County8
- Wilkinson County8
- Copiah County8
- Hinds County8
- Jefferson County8
- Rankin County8
- Simpson County8
- Smith County8
- Walthall County7
- Claiborne County7
- Clarke County7
- Jasper County7
- Kemper County7
- Lauderdale County7
- Leake County7
- Madison County7
- Newton County7
- Scott County7
- Warren County7
- George County6
- Greene County6
- Perry County6
- Stone County6
- Wayne County6
- Neshoba County6
- Adams County6
42 more counties
- Attala County5
- Benton County5
- Calhoun County5
- Chickasaw County5
- Choctaw County5
- Clay County5
- Itawamba County5
- Lee County5
- Lowndes County5
- Monroe County5
- Oktibbeha County5
- Pontotoc County5
- Prentiss County5
- Tate County5
- Tippah County5
- Tishomingo County5
- Tunica County5
- Alcorn County4
- Bolivar County4
- Carroll County4
- DeSoto County4
- Holmes County4
- Humphreys County4
- Issaquena County4
- Leflore County4
- Marshall County4
- Montgomery County4
- Noxubee County4
- Sharkey County4
- Union County4
- Washington County4
- Webster County4
- Winston County4
- Yazoo County4
- Coahoma County3
- Grenada County3
- Lafayette County3
- Panola County3
- Quitman County3
- Tallahatchie County3
- Yalobusha County3
- Sunflower County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.