Excessive Heat Warnings in Mississippi
196 excessive heat warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of excessive heat warnings reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Warnings
- 196
- Busiest year
- 202364 excessive heat warnings
- Average year
- 12over 16 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Coahoma County65
- Quitman County58
- Tallahatchie County56
- Tunica County54
- Panola County46
- DeSoto County44
- Issaquena County41
- Tate County40
- Bolivar County40
- Washington County40
- Wilkinson County40
- Yalobusha County39
- Humphreys County39
- Sharkey County39
- Warren County39
- Sunflower County38
- Pearl River County38
- Leflore County37
- Amite County36
- Pike County36
- Walthall County36
- Holmes County31
- Yazoo County31
- Hancock County31
- Harrison County31
- Jackson County31
- Calhoun County30
- Adams County30
- Carroll County30
- Grenada County30
- Jefferson County30
- Claiborne County29
- Lafayette County28
- Chickasaw County26
- Monroe County26
- Lee County25
- Pontotoc County25
- Hinds County25
- Montgomery County25
- George County25
42 more counties
- Greene County25
- Perry County25
- Stone County25
- Itawamba County24
- Marshall County24
- Webster County24
- Franklin County24
- Union County23
- Attala County23
- Choctaw County23
- Copiah County23
- Madison County23
- Lincoln County22
- Wayne County22
- Benton County21
- Rankin County21
- Simpson County21
- Lawrence County21
- Jefferson Davis County20
- Marion County20
- Alcorn County19
- Prentiss County19
- Tippah County19
- Tishomingo County19
- Covington County19
- Clay County18
- Leake County18
- Forrest County18
- Lamar County18
- Lowndes County17
- Oktibbeha County17
- Scott County17
- Jones County17
- Smith County17
- Neshoba County15
- Winston County15
- Noxubee County14
- Jasper County13
- Clarke County12
- Kemper County12
- Lauderdale County12
- Newton County12
Nearby
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.