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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Adams County, Mississippi

512 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Adams County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
512
Busiest year
200833 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
13over 39 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 76% of hail, wind and damage reports in Adams County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 46% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008331942%1155%19 min
2009191047%11100%40 min
201019668%757%17 min
2011211052%8100%19 min
2012211433%2075%21 min
2013181139%863%28 min
20149544%786%21 min
2015151033%888%19 min
201616756%850%35 min
201714843%1173%19 min
201810550%4100%20 min
2019161131%1377%28 min
2020201240%13100%22 min
20217271%3100%29 min
202214657%560%14 min
2023271256%1070%27 min
202415940%1164%10 min
2025201145%1267%26 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 21, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatJAN46 min
Aug 21, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN61 min
Aug 21, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN56 min
Aug 21, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN51 min
Aug 21, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN58 min
Jun 1, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN54 min
May 23, 12:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN59 min
May 23, 11:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN53 min
May 6, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN55 min
May 6, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN51 min
Apr 29, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN74 min
Apr 29, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN70 min

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.