Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Franklin County, Mississippi

3,254 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Franklin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,254
Warnings
876
Watches
682
Advisories
593
Busiest year
2008210 alerts
Average year
79over 41 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

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 67% of tornado reports in Franklin County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 25 minutes before, and 75% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811191%540%43 min
200930100%0
201030100%0
2011110%0
201230100%0
201320100%0
201540100%0
20164250%0
201710100%10%
2018220%3100%28 min
20194250%580%18 min
20203167%560%17 min
202110100%0
20223167%0
20232150%10%
2024220%4100%25 min
202520100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008301743%1182%21 min
200917759%10100%27 min
201016663%2100%22 min
2011191521%9100%16 min
2012231343%1638%35 min
201311736%10100%21 min
201410640%475%20 min
201511555%10%
201616944%1070%19 min
2017161131%1070%20 min
201813562%580%33 min
2019161319%967%28 min
2020151127%1060%33 min
20214250%10%
202215847%560%15 min
2023191047%633%16 min
2024191237%1100%44 min
2025282414%1090%35 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200812742%683%73 min
20098363%1100%121 min
20104250%0
20116350%1100%63 min
20128450%1100%94 min
20134250%2100%97 min
20148363%0
20155260%10%
20167357%580%189 min
20179456%2100%69 min
2018220%1100%53 min
201910100%0
2020220%6100%172 min
20212150%1100%56 min
20227357%10%
20232150%0
20245420%540%69 min
20254325%1100%18 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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 22, 2:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN39 min
Sep 8, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN58 min
Aug 21, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatJAN46 min
Aug 21, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN61 min
Aug 20, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN67 min
Aug 20, 12:46 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN31 hr
Aug 19, 3:12 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN18 hr
Aug 16, 2:15 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN42 hr
Jul 21, 1:50 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN29 hr
Jul 19, 12:19 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN57 hr
Jun 18, 8:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJAN6 hr
Jun 16, 2:31 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningJAN7 hr

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.