Weather alerts in Mississippi, 2018
3,405 weather alerts in 2018, 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3,405
- Warnings
- 1,202
- Watches
- 86
- Advisories
- 291
- Busiest month
- July535 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 14, 2018118 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
3,405 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 | 589 |
| Tornado Warning | 112 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 16 |
| Tornado Watch | 19 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 108 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1,718 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 36 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 156 |
| River Flood Warning | 265 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 23 |
| Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 111 |
| River Flood Advisory | 24 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 10 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 4 |
| Heat Advisory | 37 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 20 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 12 |
| Freeze Watch | 11 |
| Hard Freeze Watch | 5 |
| Frost Advisory | 9 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 11 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 20 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 60 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 5 |
| Tropical | |
| Hurricane Warning | 1 |
| Storm Surge Warning | 1 |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 3 |
| Hurricane Watch | 1 |
| Storm Surge Watch | 2 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 3 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Rankin County178
- Hinds County175
- Marshall County168
- Madison County166
- DeSoto County163
- Tunica County161
- Monroe County160
- Warren County158
- Washington County158
- Bolivar County157
- Yazoo County157
- Pearl River County152
- Sunflower County152
- Greene County150
- Coahoma County150
- Lee County149
- Lafayette County147
- Prentiss County147
- Panola County146
- Union County146
- Holmes County146
- Leflore County144
- Tippah County142
- Tishomingo County141
- Alcorn County138
- Benton County138
- Quitman County138
- Pontotoc County136
- Carroll County136
- Attala County135
- Issaquena County135
- Leake County135
- Tate County134
- Tallahatchie County133
- George County132
- Wayne County132
- Itawamba County130
- Humphreys County128
- Jones County128
- Sharkey County128
42 more counties
- Smith County127
- Yalobusha County121
- Grenada County121
- Chickasaw County119
- Copiah County119
- Oktibbeha County119
- Scott County119
- Perry County118
- Montgomery County118
- Clarke County117
- Simpson County117
- Calhoun County116
- Covington County115
- Lowndes County115
- Neshoba County115
- Newton County113
- Hancock County112
- Wilkinson County111
- Lauderdale County111
- Clay County110
- Claiborne County109
- Jasper County108
- Harrison County108
- Marion County107
- Noxubee County107
- Jackson County106
- Forrest County105
- Walthall County102
- Amite County101
- Choctaw County101
- Kemper County101
- Jefferson County100
- Lamar County99
- Webster County98
- Winston County98
- Pike County97
- Stone County95
- Lawrence County93
- Franklin County92
- Jefferson Davis County92
- Lincoln County88
- Adams County87
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.