Weather alerts in Benton County, Mississippi
3,350 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Benton County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3,350
- Warnings
- 920
- Watches
- 665
- Advisories
- 785
- Busiest year
- 2011257 alerts
- Average year
- 84over 40 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 7:58 PM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | MEG | 24 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:06 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | MEG | 5 days |
| Jul 25, 11:17 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | MEG | 3 days |
| Jul 19, 11:47 AM CDT | Extreme Heat Warning | MEG | 57 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MEG | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | 18 min |
| Apr 28, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | 52 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. Rebuilt daily.