Tornado Watch until 07:00PM Thursday
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 39 IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CST THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN MISSISSIPPI THIS WATCH INCLUDES 14 COUNTIES IN NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALCORN CALHOUN CHICKASAW ITAWAMBA LAFAYETTE LEE MONROE PONTOTOC PRENTISS TALLAHATCHIE TIPPAH TISHOMINGO UNION YALOBUSHA IN TENNESSEE THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES IN WEST TENNESSEE DECATUR HARDIN MCNAIRY THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, AMORY, BOONEVILLE, BRUCE, CALHOUN CITY, CHARLESTON, COFFEEVILLE, CORINTH, DECATURVILLE, FULTON, HOUSTON, IUKA, NEW ALBANY, OKOLONA, OXFORD, PARSONS, PONTOTOC, RIPLEY MS, SAVANNAH, SELMER, TUPELO, AND WATER VALLEY.
* AFFECTED AREAS: ALCORN, MS ... CALHOUN, MS ... CHICKASAW, MS ... ITAWAMBA, MS ... LAFAYETTE, MS ... LEE, MS ... MONROE, MS ... PONTOTOC, MS ... PRENTISS, MS ... TALLAHATCHIE, MS ... TIPPAH, MS ... TISHOMINGO, MS ... UNION, MS ... YALOBUSHA, MS ... DECATUR, TN ... HARDIN, TN ... MCNAIRY, TN
Address/Location
City of Oxford, MS
107 Courthouse Square
Oxford, MS 38655
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 662-232-8073
TEXT-A-TIP - Text TIP OXFORDMS followed by your message, to 888777
Alert Details
- Severity:
- Extreme - Extraordinary threat to life or property
- Urgency:
- Future - Responsive action SHOULD be taken in the near future
- Certainty:
- Possible (p <= ~50%)
- Category:
- Meteorological (inc. flood)
- Event:
- Tornado Watch