Weather alerts in Mississippi, 2022
3,317 weather alerts in 2022, 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3,317
- Warnings
- 1,294
- Watches
- 104
- Advisories
- 407
- Busiest month
- May507 alerts
- Busiest day
- December 14, 2022140 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
3,317 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 | 647 |
| Tornado Warning | 238 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 20 |
| Tornado Watch | 34 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 159 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1,353 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 12 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 120 |
| River Flood Warning | 207 |
| Flood Watch | 24 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 164 |
| River Flood Advisory | 5 |
| Winter | |
| Ice Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 15 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 10 |
| Heat Advisory | 85 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 20 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 12 |
| Wind Chill Warning | 2 |
| Freeze Watch | 11 |
| Hard Freeze Watch | 4 |
| Wind Chill Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 4 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 5 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 4 |
| Wind Advisory | 39 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 17 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 8 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 82 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greene County246
- Pearl River County243
- Wayne County235
- Rankin County233
- George County215
- Perry County214
- Madison County204
- Yazoo County204
- Hinds County199
- Amite County193
- Stone County191
- Leake County190
- Simpson County185
- Holmes County181
- Warren County179
- Wilkinson County178
- Walthall County176
- DeSoto County176
- Jasper County174
- Jones County174
- Monroe County173
- Pike County169
- Issaquena County169
- Tunica County166
- Lamar County166
- Scott County166
- Smith County166
- Clarke County165
- Forrest County165
- Washington County165
- Copiah County164
- Newton County162
- Sharkey County161
- Neshoba County160
- Covington County158
- Humphreys County158
- Jefferson Davis County157
- Attala County156
- Jackson County155
- Claiborne County154
42 more counties
- Marshall County152
- Coahoma County150
- Tallahatchie County150
- Lauderdale County150
- Sunflower County150
- Lafayette County149
- Lawrence County149
- Hancock County149
- Tate County148
- Carroll County148
- Marion County148
- Panola County145
- Quitman County145
- Bolivar County145
- Union County144
- Leflore County143
- Kemper County142
- Noxubee County141
- Pontotoc County140
- Jefferson County139
- Lowndes County139
- Lee County136
- Yalobusha County136
- Clay County135
- Franklin County135
- Lincoln County135
- Harrison County134
- Chickasaw County132
- Itawamba County132
- Tippah County132
- Alcorn County129
- Tishomingo County129
- Choctaw County129
- Winston County129
- Prentiss County128
- Adams County128
- Benton County127
- Calhoun County127
- Montgomery County127
- Webster County127
- Grenada County125
- Oktibbeha County125
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.