Weather alerts in Mississippi, 2003
1,786 weather alerts in 2003, 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,786
- Warnings
- 1,447
- Watches
- 105
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- May434 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 25, 200386 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,786 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
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 | 1,033 |
| Tornado Warning | 262 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 53 |
| Tornado Watch | 52 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 234 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 152 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rankin County142
- Hinds County137
- Lauderdale County134
- Madison County132
- Sunflower County129
- Scott County125
- Leflore County122
- Bolivar County121
- Newton County120
- Jones County118
- Neshoba County117
- Grenada County117
- DeSoto County115
- Leake County114
- Warren County114
- Attala County112
- Tallahatchie County111
- Marshall County110
- Carroll County110
- Tate County109
- Webster County109
- Sharkey County108
- Tunica County108
- Washington County108
- Lowndes County108
- Yazoo County108
- Panola County107
- Forrest County107
- Smith County107
- Kemper County107
- Benton County107
- Humphreys County106
- Quitman County105
- Jefferson Davis County105
- Holmes County105
- Montgomery County104
- Clay County104
- Covington County103
- Simpson County103
- Choctaw County103
42 more counties
- Noxubee County103
- Calhoun County103
- Tippah County103
- Issaquena County101
- Lamar County101
- Chickasaw County101
- Union County100
- Clarke County99
- Greene County99
- Jasper County98
- Wayne County98
- Lee County96
- Coahoma County95
- Pearl River County95
- Oktibbeha County95
- Lafayette County95
- Perry County94
- Alcorn County94
- Winston County93
- Prentiss County93
- Marion County92
- Yalobusha County92
- Copiah County91
- Lawrence County90
- Pontotoc County90
- Monroe County90
- Itawamba County90
- Jefferson County89
- Lincoln County87
- Claiborne County86
- Tishomingo County85
- Adams County81
- George County80
- Franklin County79
- Jackson County76
- Amite County74
- Stone County71
- Wilkinson County71
- Walthall County69
- Harrison County68
- Hancock County66
- Pike County65
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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. Rebuilt daily.