Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Hinds County, Mississippi

4,744 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hinds County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,744
Warnings
2,008
Watches
718
Advisories
637
Busiest year
2008260 alerts
Average year
116over 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, 77% of tornado reports in Hinds County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 21 minutes before, and 39% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814750%683%24 min
20094175%20%
20109456%683%14 min
20115340%1385%31 min
201220100%10%
20132150%3100%18 min
2014440%863%30 min
20152150%250%17 min
2016220%1100%1 min
201710460%8100%25 min
20187614%2100%20 min
201910730%1771%30 min
20202150%30%
20214250%875%21 min
20229811%3090%17 min
20232150%1100%11 min
20249633%967%16 min
2025220%367%0 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008632560%4678%30 min
2009271352%2492%29 min
2010532945%2488%18 min
2011473526%4973%23 min
2012311939%2789%26 min
2013272122%4293%32 min
2014302517%2479%17 min
2015352626%3879%18 min
2016342624%4377%25 min
2017393023%5487%27 min
2018372630%3187%24 min
2019412734%4085%37 min
2020312229%2383%22 min
2021262023%3187%28 min
2022413222%7991%33 min
2023503334%7679%27 min
2024282125%3278%36 min
2025392926%4188%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008191047%771%53 min
200918856%9100%43 min
20109811%989%87 min
201111109%7100%203 min
201214750%14100%63 min
2013151033%15100%81 min
2014161131%15100%70 min
20159544%771%37 min
20169633%2095%113 min
201713838%1782%47 min
2018151127%2186%51 min
2019990%3090%87 min
2020151220%3388%88 min
20216517%3694%50 min
20228538%989%70 min
20233233%875%67 min
202413838%12100%68 min
20257529%1267%58 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 14, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN42 min
Aug 21, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN66 min
Aug 21, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN59 min
Aug 21, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN62 min
Aug 20, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN82 min
Aug 20, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN78 min
Aug 20, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN39 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
Aug 6, 1:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJAN2 hr
Jul 28, 2:00 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN31 hr

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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.