Alert archive / Mississippi / 1989
Weather alerts in Mississippi, May 1989
67 weather alerts in May 1989, 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 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 67
- Warnings
- 67
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 9, 198912 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 4, 8:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 116 min |
| May 4, 10:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Sharkey | 48 min |
| May 4, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Warren | 43 min |
| May 4, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds | 59 min |
| May 4, 11:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 40 min |
| May 4, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 49 min |
| May 4, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Scott | 32 min |
| May 4, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 35 min |
| May 4, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton | 48 min |
| May 4, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 52 min |
| May 5, 4:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 30 min |
| May 5, 5:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison | 28 min |
| May 5, 5:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite, Pike | 32 min |
| May 5, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Lamar, Pearl River | 47 min |
| May 8, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes | 19 min |
| May 8, 10:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Tunica | 54 min |
| May 8, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Quitman, Tunica | 42 min |
| May 9, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 44 min |
| May 9, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 28 min |
| May 9, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 29 min |
| May 9, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Tallahatchie | 34 min |
| May 9, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore, Tallahatchie | 34 min |
| May 9, 2:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma | 66 min |
| May 9, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada | 30 min |
| May 9, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 37 min |
| May 9, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leflore | 40 min |
| May 15, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Pike | 38 min |
| May 18, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 38 min |
| May 18, 1:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Simpson | 32 min |
| May 18, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper | 43 min |
| May 18, 4:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Hinds | 90 min |
| May 18, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Pearl River | 32 min |
| May 18, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Marion, Walthall | 3 hr |
| May 18, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Amite, Pike, Wilkinson | 3 hr |
| May 18, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Copiah, Hinds | 2 hr |
| May 18, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| May 18, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson | 119 min |
| May 19, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Hancock | 33 min |
| May 19, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Harrison | 12 min |
| May 19, 6:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George | 3 hr |
| May 20, 8:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Tippah | 60 min |
| May 20, 9:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Alcorn | 60 min |
| May 20, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Prentiss | 38 min |
| May 20, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto | 44 min |
| May 20, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jones | 45 min |
| May 20, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke | 43 min |
| May 20, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Copiah, Simpson | 61 min |
| May 20, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Smith | 42 min |
| May 20, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 47 min |
| May 20, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 39 min |
| May 20, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Smith | 59 min |
| May 20, 6:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Rankin | 87 min |
| May 20, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin | 28 min |
| May 21, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tunica | 68 min |
| May 22, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Amite | 33 min |
| May 22, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JAN | Pike | 35 min |
| May 22, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Tate | 66 min |
| May 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Leflore | 52 min |
| May 22, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Montgomery | 32 min |
| May 23, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison | 25 min |
| May 23, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 54 min |
| May 23, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Forrest | 26 min |
| May 23, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Forrest, Lamar | 39 min |
| May 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Jackson | 44 min |
| May 23, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Jackson | 28 min |
| May 23, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Marion | 37 min |
| May 23, 11:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JAN | Marion | 2 hr |
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 | 48 |
| Tornado Warning | 9 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 10 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rankin County7
- Hinds County5
- Madison County4
- Simpson County4
- Pike County4
- Coahoma County4
- Smith County3
- Amite County3
- Carroll County3
- Tunica County3
- Leflore County3
- Marion County3
- Claiborne County2
- Scott County2
- Jasper County2
- Clarke County2
- Lauderdale County2
- Lamar County2
- Pearl River County2
- Bolivar County2
- Sunflower County2
- Tallahatchie County2
- Copiah County2
- Alcorn County2
- Forrest County2
- Jackson County2
- Issaquena County1
- Sharkey County1
- Warren County1
- Newton County1
- Yazoo County1
- Holmes County1
- Quitman County1
- Grenada County1
- Jefferson County1
- Walthall County1
- Wilkinson County1
- Lincoln County1
- Hancock County1
- Harrison 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.