Flood Watches in Mississippi
150 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 150
- Busiest year
- 202432 flood watches
- Average year
- 8over 19 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.
- Pearl River County50
- Walthall County41
- Pike County39
- Amite County37
- Wilkinson County36
- Claiborne County28
- Copiah County28
- Adams County27
- Simpson County27
- Forrest County26
- Hinds County26
- Jasper County26
- Jefferson County26
- Lamar County26
- Warren County26
- Clarke County25
- Covington County25
- Franklin County25
- Jones County25
- Lawrence County25
- Marion County25
- Rankin County25
- Smith County25
- Coahoma County25
- Marshall County25
- Panola County25
- Quitman County25
- Tallahatchie County25
- Tate County25
- Tunica County25
- Alcorn County25
- Benton County25
- Prentiss County25
- Tippah County25
- Tishomingo County25
- Lincoln County24
- Madison County24
- Yazoo County24
- Chickasaw County24
- DeSoto County24
42 more counties
- Itawamba County24
- Lafayette County24
- Lee County24
- Monroe County24
- Pontotoc County24
- Union County24
- Yalobusha County24
- Issaquena County23
- Jefferson Davis County23
- Lauderdale County23
- Newton County23
- Scott County23
- Sharkey County22
- Calhoun County22
- Hancock County22
- Kemper County21
- Leake County21
- Neshoba County21
- Holmes County20
- Humphreys County20
- Noxubee County20
- Winston County20
- Harrison County20
- Jackson County20
- Attala County19
- Perry County19
- Wayne County19
- Choctaw County18
- Greene County18
- Carroll County17
- George County17
- Lowndes County17
- Montgomery County17
- Oktibbeha County17
- Stone County17
- Washington County17
- Webster County17
- Clay County16
- Leflore County16
- Grenada County15
- Sunflower County15
- Bolivar County14
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:37 AM CDT | Flood Watch | MEG | Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica | 13 hr |
| Jun 20, 3:29 AM CDT | Flood Watch | JAN | Adams, Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah and 24 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Flood Watch | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 4 days |
| Jun 15, 12:39 AM CDT | Flood Watch | JAN | Adams, Claiborne, Clarke, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 24 more | 5 days |
| Jun 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Flood Watch | LIX | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more | 4 days |
| May 26, 3:38 PM CDT | Flood Watch | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 12 hr |
| May 26, 11:19 AM CDT | Flood Watch | LIX | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more | 32 hr |
| May 26, 9:42 AM CDT | Flood Watch | JAN | Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Jasper, Jones, Lamar | 11 hr |
| May 25, 1:13 PM CDT | Flood Watch | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River | 30 hr |
| May 25, 9:29 AM CDT | Flood Watch | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 39 hr |
| May 23, 9:04 AM CDT | Flood Watch | LIX | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more | 58 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:02 PM CST | Flood Watch | LIX | Amite, Hancock, Pearl River, Pike, Walthall | 45 hr |
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.