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Tornado Warnings in Harrison County, Mississippi, 2011

27 tornado warnings in 2011. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Harrison County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
27
Busiest month
September23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
September 4, 201111 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.

3 of 27 tornado warnings covering Harrison County in 2011 had a tornado report inside them; 7 of 8 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 11 minutes after it went out.

Harrison County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings27389%888%11 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS New Orleans, LA: tornado warnings1701889%5161%17 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
Mar 9, 7:24 AM CSTTornado WarningLIX66 min
Apr 4, 8:04 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX41 min
Jul 18, 5:56 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX49 min
Sep 3, 12:55 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX35 min
Sep 3, 1:05 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX25 min
Sep 3, 1:36 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX24 min
Sep 3, 6:26 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX34 min
Sep 3, 8:28 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX47 min
Sep 3, 8:42 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX63 min
Sep 3, 9:13 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX47 min
Sep 3, 10:17 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX43 min
Sep 3, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX13 min
Sep 3, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX47 min
Sep 3, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX38 min
Sep 3, 11:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX23 min
Sep 3, 11:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX34 min
Sep 4, 12:40 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX20 min
Sep 4, 12:41 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX34 min
Sep 4, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX15 min
Sep 4, 4:45 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX45 min
Sep 4, 10:51 AM CDTTornado WarningLIX24 min
Sep 4, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX39 min
Sep 4, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX50 min
Sep 19, 12:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX9 min
Sep 19, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX27 min
Sep 19, 2:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLIX33 min
Nov 16, 7:34 AM CSTTornado WarningLIX41 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20102012

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.