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Tornado Watches in Mississippi, 2025

34 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
34
Busiest month
March9 tornado watches
Busiest day
March 15, 20255 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 5, 1:36 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun and 60 more9 hr
Feb 12, 12:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Franklin, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson and 4 more8 hr
Feb 12, 1:32 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCClaiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest, George and 24 more8 hr
Feb 12, 8:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCGreene, Perry, Wayne6 hr
Feb 15, 4:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Coahoma and 24 more7 hr
Feb 15, 9:11 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne and 46 more9 hr
Mar 4, 12:22 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 54 more9 hr
Mar 14, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw and 26 more5 hr
Mar 14, 7:34 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more10 hr
Mar 14, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAttala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 27 more7 hr
Mar 15, 5:58 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 29 more7 hr
Mar 15, 10:31 AM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdams, Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Calhoun and 61 more9 hr
Mar 15, 12:25 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCGeorge, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne9 hr
Mar 23, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more8 hr
Mar 30, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 25 more6 hr
Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto and 14 more9 hr
Apr 2, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Coahoma, Lafayette, Lee and 11 more8 hr
Apr 3, 12:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette and 13 more9 hr
Apr 3, 2:14 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBolivar, Sunflower, Washington8 hr
Apr 4, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall and 9 more7 hr
Apr 5, 9:56 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette and 14 more9 hr
Apr 5, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 26 more7 hr
Apr 5, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Attala, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne and 37 more9 hr
Apr 6, 2:46 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCGreene, Perry, Wayne7 hr
May 6, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 13 more7 hr
May 16, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more9 hr
May 20, 1:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAlcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw and 26 more8 hr
May 20, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clay and 27 more5 hr
Oct 18, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 29 more7 hr
Oct 25, 11:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAmite, Wilkinson7 hr
Oct 26, 5:23 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCForrest, George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Lamar and 5 more9 hr
Nov 24, 10:46 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 16 more7 hr
Nov 25, 12:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCGreene, Perry, Wayne6 hr
Dec 18, 5:04 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Kemper, Leake, Lowndes and 5 more4 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 15, 20255tornado watches
  2. April 3, 20253tornado watches
  3. February 12, 20252tornado watches
  4. April 5, 20252tornado watches
  5. April 6, 20252tornado watches
  6. May 20, 20252tornado watches
  7. October 26, 20252tornado watches
  8. November 25, 20252tornado watches
  9. January 5, 20251tornado watches
  10. February 13, 20251tornado watches
  11. February 15, 20251tornado watches
  12. February 16, 20251tornado 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.