Weather alerts in Mississippi, 2020
3,306 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3,306
- Warnings
- 1,268
- Watches
- 116
- Advisories
- 346
- Busiest month
- April485 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 12, 2020102 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
3,306 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 | 602 |
| Tornado Warning | 135 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 15 |
| Tornado Watch | 34 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 150 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1,426 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 18 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 142 |
| River Flood Warning | 331 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 40 |
| Flood Watch | 5 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 142 |
| River Flood Advisory | 29 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 1 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 2 |
| Heat Advisory | 34 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 7 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Freeze Watch | 3 |
| Frost Advisory | 7 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 39 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 78 |
| Tropical | |
| Hurricane Warning | 5 |
| Storm Surge Warning | 5 |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 12 |
| Hurricane Watch | 3 |
| Storm Surge Watch | 6 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 10 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 3 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 16 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pearl River County201
- George County185
- Greene County182
- Pike County180
- Wayne County178
- Monroe County176
- Rankin County174
- Madison County171
- Hinds County169
- Leake County164
- Wilkinson County162
- Amite County161
- Walthall County158
- Simpson County153
- Perry County152
- Copiah County148
- DeSoto County147
- Smith County146
- Lee County146
- Marshall County142
- Neshoba County141
- Tunica County141
- Jones County141
- Holmes County140
- Itawamba County139
- Lowndes County138
- Stone County138
- Attala County136
- Jasper County136
- Yazoo County136
- Lafayette County135
- Prentiss County132
- Scott County131
- Warren County131
- Tate County131
- Pontotoc County129
- Hancock County129
- Adams County128
- Noxubee County128
- Union County128
42 more counties
- Issaquena County127
- Lauderdale County127
- Newton County127
- Covington County125
- Jefferson County125
- Winston County125
- Jackson County125
- Washington County124
- Tishomingo County124
- Panola County122
- Benton County121
- Franklin County120
- Humphreys County120
- Kemper County120
- Chickasaw County119
- Clarke County119
- Claiborne County118
- Lincoln County118
- Jefferson Davis County117
- Oktibbeha County117
- Tippah County117
- Marion County116
- Lawrence County115
- Clay County114
- Forrest County114
- Sunflower County113
- Calhoun County113
- Coahoma County112
- Lamar County111
- Sharkey County110
- Alcorn County109
- Harrison County108
- Quitman County105
- Leflore County104
- Tallahatchie County104
- Bolivar County104
- Choctaw County99
- Carroll County96
- Webster County94
- Yalobusha County93
- Montgomery County80
- Grenada County78
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.