Flash Flood Watches in Mississippi
518 flash flood watches 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 flash flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flash Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Watches
- 518
- Busiest year
- 200965 flash flood watches
- Average year
- 29over 18 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.
- Yazoo County123
- Warren County121
- Humphreys County120
- Issaquena County119
- Sharkey County119
- Hinds County118
- Holmes County117
- Carroll County116
- Rankin County116
- Madison County115
- Washington County110
- Claiborne County109
- Scott County108
- Grenada County107
- Leflore County107
- Montgomery County107
- Sunflower County105
- Bolivar County104
- Copiah County104
- Leake County104
- Attala County103
- Simpson County100
- Jefferson County98
- Lamar County98
- Lauderdale County98
- Lawrence County98
- Lincoln County98
- Choctaw County97
- Forrest County97
- Marion County97
- Neshoba County97
- Newton County97
- Pearl River County97
- Jefferson Davis County96
- Amite County95
- Clay County95
- Webster County95
- Covington County94
- Franklin County94
- Oktibbeha County94
39 more counties
- Pike County94
- Adams County93
- Jones County93
- Smith County93
- Walthall County93
- Winston County93
- Jasper County92
- Lowndes County92
- George County91
- Clarke County90
- Wilkinson County90
- DeSoto County89
- Kemper County89
- Tunica County89
- Stone County88
- Coahoma County87
- Noxubee County87
- Panola County87
- Tate County86
- Marshall County85
- Quitman County85
- Tishomingo County85
- Alcorn County84
- Benton County84
- Lafayette County84
- Tallahatchie County84
- Tippah County84
- Prentiss County83
- Pontotoc County82
- Chickasaw County81
- Itawamba County81
- Lee County81
- Calhoun County80
- Greene County80
- Monroe County80
- Union County80
- Yalobusha County80
- Perry County76
- Wayne County75
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.