Weather alerts in Mississippi
77,206 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 77,206
- Warnings
- 42,895
- Watches
- 3,085
- Advisories
- 6,408
- Busiest year
- 20234,008 alerts
- Average year
- 1,883over 41 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rankin County4,862
- Hinds County4,744
- Pearl River County4,648
- Madison County4,516
- Greene County4,348
- Yazoo County4,287
- Simpson County4,159
- Warren County4,137
- Jones County4,098
- George County4,086
- DeSoto County4,063
- Monroe County4,038
- Copiah County4,016
- Wayne County4,015
- Holmes County3,999
- Washington County3,990
- Smith County3,955
- Marshall County3,893
- Perry County3,872
- Leake County3,871
- Forrest County3,855
- Scott County3,830
- Lamar County3,805
- Sunflower County3,798
- Issaquena County3,792
- Lauderdale County3,785
- Jasper County3,784
- Bolivar County3,763
- Tunica County3,751
- Attala County3,740
- Covington County3,727
- Pike County3,726
- Lee County3,715
- Leflore County3,693
- Amite County3,677
- Neshoba County3,674
- Jefferson Davis County3,661
- Lafayette County3,656
- Lowndes County3,654
- Carroll County3,639
42 more counties
- Clarke County3,614
- Marion County3,609
- Newton County3,604
- Lincoln County3,598
- Lawrence County3,596
- Walthall County3,583
- Panola County3,577
- Tate County3,553
- Claiborne County3,551
- Sharkey County3,551
- Harrison County3,546
- Hancock County3,535
- Humphreys County3,517
- Wilkinson County3,512
- Stone County3,502
- Pontotoc County3,493
- Union County3,476
- Itawamba County3,473
- Kemper County3,464
- Jefferson County3,441
- Noxubee County3,434
- Prentiss County3,393
- Coahoma County3,388
- Quitman County3,377
- Tippah County3,360
- Chickasaw County3,352
- Tishomingo County3,351
- Benton County3,350
- Jackson County3,328
- Winston County3,318
- Clay County3,309
- Montgomery County3,280
- Tallahatchie County3,274
- Adams County3,271
- Oktibbeha County3,267
- Grenada County3,265
- Franklin County3,254
- Alcorn County3,226
- Calhoun County3,201
- Choctaw County3,191
- Yalobusha County3,111
- Webster County3,075
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Franklin, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Sep 21, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 55 min |
| Sep 21, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 65 min |
| Sep 21, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Winston | 67 min |
| Sep 21, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 42 min |
| Sep 21, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Oktibbeha, Webster | 54 min |
| Sep 21, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 56 min |
| Sep 21, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 56 min |
| Sep 21, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones | 55 min |
| Sep 21, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 49 min |
| Sep 21, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Lamar, Marion | 55 min |
Nearby
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. Rebuilt daily.