Freeze Watches in Mississippi
180 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 180
- Busiest year
- 202319 freeze watches
- Average year
- 8over 22 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.
- Wayne County51
- Greene County48
- Perry County47
- Alcorn County46
- Prentiss County44
- Tippah County44
- Tishomingo County44
- Clay County41
- Lowndes County41
- Oktibbeha County41
- Benton County41
- Lauderdale County40
- Newton County40
- Noxubee County40
- Winston County40
- Marshall County40
- Choctaw County39
- Kemper County39
- Neshoba County39
- Webster County39
- Union County39
- Clarke County38
- Jasper County38
- Attala County37
- Leake County37
- Scott County37
- Itawamba County37
- George County36
- Grenada County36
- Montgomery County36
- Stone County36
- Lafayette County36
- Smith County35
- Lee County35
- Pontotoc County35
- Carroll County34
- Covington County32
- Holmes County32
- Jones County32
- Chickasaw County32
42 more counties
- DeSoto County32
- Monroe County32
- Panola County32
- Tate County32
- Tunica County32
- Bolivar County31
- Forrest County31
- Leflore County31
- Sunflower County31
- Calhoun County31
- Yalobusha County31
- Madison County30
- Rankin County30
- Yazoo County30
- Hinds County29
- Washington County29
- Coahoma County29
- Quitman County29
- Lamar County28
- Simpson County28
- Tallahatchie County28
- Humphreys County27
- Issaquena County27
- Sharkey County27
- Warren County27
- Jefferson Davis County26
- Marion County26
- Copiah County25
- Walthall County25
- Amite County24
- Claiborne County24
- Jefferson County24
- Lawrence County24
- Lincoln County24
- Pike County24
- Adams County23
- Pearl River County23
- Franklin County22
- Wilkinson County22
- Hancock County3
- Harrison County3
- Jackson County3
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 5:37 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | LIX | Amite, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River, Pike and 2 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:06 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | JAN | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 41 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:02 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 14, 11:02 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette and 12 more | 16 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.