Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Mississippi

3,598 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lincoln County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,598
Warnings
1,059
Watches
696
Advisories
636
Busiest year
2008219 alerts
Average year
88over 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 Lincoln County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 24 minutes before, and 70% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200822386%2100%16 min
200920100%0
201080100%0
20113233%250%43 min
20124175%0
201350100%0
201410100%0
201530100%0
20164325%10%
201720100%10%
2018110%10%
20197357%6100%22 min
20205340%3100%21 min
20212150%250%26 min
20224175%20%
20235260%450%30 min
2024550%683%25 min
20255180%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
2008321650%1735%24 min
2009261350%10100%34 min
2010191142%5100%11 min
2011221723%1182%20 min
2012201050%683%27 min
201311555%367%24 min
2014181044%1354%17 min
201519479%367%31 min
2016211624%2781%33 min
2017211433%3275%20 min
201814750%333%23 min
2019201050%1182%37 min
2020161131%1182%26 min
20216433%475%24 min
202211645%1729%24 min
2023331748%1560%17 min
202415940%1080%22 min
2025272315%15100%20 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200812833%5100%55 min
200910550%367%131 min
20102150%1100%60 min
2011660%6100%76 min
201210550%1100%70 min
20137357%0
20143233%0
20155180%2100%101 min
20168363%450%137 min
20177443%1362%99 min
20183233%0
20193167%250%18 min
2020330%1100%150 min
202120100%0
20225260%367%44 min
20234325%3100%67 min
20245420%2100%166 min
20255260%2100%35 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 27, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN53 min
Aug 21, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatJAN46 min
Aug 21, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN40 min
Aug 21, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN61 min
Aug 21, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN54 min
Aug 21, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN58 min
Aug 20, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN61 min
Aug 20, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN67 min
Aug 20, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN39 min
Aug 20, 12:46 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN31 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.