Alert archive / Mississippi / 1987
Weather alerts in Mississippi, May 1987
26 weather alerts in May 1987, 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 in May 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 26
- Warnings
- 26
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19876 alerts
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, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 27 min |
| May 2, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys | 38 min |
| May 2, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 51 min |
| May 2, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 32 min |
| May 3, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 45 min |
| May 3, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale, Newton | 42 min |
| May 3, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 41 min |
| May 3, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington | 44 min |
| May 4, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Hancock, Harrison, Stone | 46 min |
| May 4, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Hancock | 65 min |
| May 4, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 41 min |
| May 5, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 67 min |
| May 6, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey, Yazoo | 29 min |
| May 6, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sharkey | 34 min |
| May 6, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah | 36 min |
| May 6, 4:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Leflore | 2 hr |
| May 12, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite | 34 min |
| May 16, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 36 min |
| May 21, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds | 24 min |
| May 21, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper | 36 min |
| May 21, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 40 min |
| May 21, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 17 min |
| May 22, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Sunflower, Tallahatchie | 2 hr |
| May 22, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 24 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 25 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sharkey County3
- Leflore County3
- Hinds County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Hancock County2
- Kemper County2
- Bolivar County1
- Humphreys County1
- Jones County1
- Scott County1
- Newton County1
- Jefferson Davis County1
- Marion County1
- Covington County1
- Harrison County1
- Stone County1
- Adams County1
- Yazoo County1
- Copiah County1
- Amite County1
- Prentiss County1
- Webster County1
- Sunflower County1
- Tallahatchie County1
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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.