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Tornado Warnings in Hancock County, Mississippi, 2021

20 tornado warnings in 2021. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Hancock County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
20
Busiest month
August12 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 30, 20217 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

8 of 20 tornado warnings covering Hancock County in 2021 had a tornado report inside them; 5 of 5 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 6 minutes after it went out.

Hancock County, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings20860%5100%6 min

Each office's whole area, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS New Orleans, LA: tornado warnings791680%3969%8 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 8, 3:24 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX36 min
Jun 18, 11:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX22 min
Jun 18, 11:46 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX14 min
Jun 19, 12:37 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX23 min
Aug 29, 6:21 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX24 min
Aug 29, 2:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX15 min
Aug 29, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX23 min
Aug 29, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX35 min
Aug 29, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX36 min
Aug 29, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX38 min
Aug 29, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX26 min
Aug 29, 9:32 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX13 min
Aug 29, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX24 min
Aug 29, 10:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX14 min
Aug 29, 10:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX41 min
Aug 29, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX31 min
Sep 15, 6:22 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX23 min
Oct 27, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX12 min
Dec 6, 3:20 PM CSTTornado WarningLIX30 min
Dec 6, 3:36 PM CSTTornado WarningLIX28 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.