Alert archive / Mississippi / Madison County

Weather alerts in Madison County, Mississippi, 2009

195 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Madison County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 195
Warnings: 61
Watches: 42
Advisories: 48
Busiest month: May36 alerts
Busiest day: May 6, 200912 alerts

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 7 tornado warnings covering Madison County in 2009 had a tornado report inside them; 2 of 2 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 10 minutes after it went out.

Madison County, 2009

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	7	3	57%	2	100%	10 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	25	13	48%	19	58%	28 min
Flash flood warnings	14	9	36%	6	100%	38 min

Each office's whole area, 2009

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Jackson, MS: tornado warnings	126	21	83%	41	73%	18 min
NWS Jackson, MS: severe thunderstorm warnings	600	264	56%	647	83%	26 min
NWS Jackson, MS: flash flood warnings	191	100	48%	198	93%	107 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 2, 7:48 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	10 hr
Jan 4, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	38 min
Jan 4, 4:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	24 min
Jan 5, 4:14 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	38 hr
Jan 5, 7:19 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	13 days
Jan 5, 10:41 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	JAN	3 hr
Jan 6, 7:09 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	102 min
Jan 6, 12:17 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	3 hr
Jan 13, 9:41 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	6 hr
Jan 14, 2:36 PM CST	Hard Freeze Watch	JAN	19 hr
Jan 15, 4:35 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	JAN	47 hr
Jan 15, 9:56 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	8 hr
Jan 19, 3:27 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	15 hr
Jan 20, 3:32 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	12 hr
Jan 23, 11:47 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	4 hr
Feb 1, 2:38 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	25 hr
Feb 2, 3:08 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	27 hr
Feb 8, 3:34 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	32 hr
Feb 10, 5:26 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	38 hr
Feb 10, 5:26 AM CST	Wind Advisory	JAN	33 hr
Feb 18, 12:42 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 18, 3:22 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Feb 19, 6:30 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	9 hr
Feb 25, 7:40 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	26 hr
Feb 27, 3:37 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	23 hr
Feb 27, 8:29 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	31 min
Feb 27, 8:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Feb 27, 10:15 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Feb 27, 12:38 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 27, 6:38 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
Feb 27, 7:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 27, 10:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
Feb 28, 5:27 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	JAN	27 hr
Feb 28, 3:52 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	26 hr
Mar 2, 2:09 PM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	8 days
Mar 14, 6:56 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	23 days
Mar 23, 3:38 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	27 hr
Mar 25, 3:38 AM CDT	Flood Watch	JAN	11 hr
Mar 25, 3:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	13 hr
Mar 25, 8:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Mar 25, 8:54 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 26, 12:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	23 min
Mar 26, 12:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	31 min
Mar 26, 12:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	57 min
Mar 26, 4:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	24 hr
Mar 27, 3:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	26 hr
Mar 27, 5:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
Mar 27, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Mar 27, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Mar 27, 11:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Mar 31, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 31, 11:54 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Mar 31, 2:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Apr 2, 8:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
Apr 2, 9:24 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 2, 11:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Apr 2, 3:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
Apr 5, 12:43 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	27 hr
Apr 5, 9:42 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	JAN	17 hr
Apr 6, 2:54 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	JAN	17 hr
Apr 8, 2:35 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	39 hr
Apr 10, 1:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Apr 10, 1:43 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 10, 2:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	20 min
Apr 10, 10:01 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	5 hr
Apr 12, 3:45 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	19 hr
Apr 12, 1:53 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 12, 5:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Apr 13, 6:18 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	81 min
May 2, 2:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 2, 5:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
May 2, 7:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	60 min
May 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 2, 10:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 2, 11:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	23 min
May 3, 6:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	40 min
May 3, 6:50 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	36 min
May 3, 7:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	45 min
May 3, 9:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	66 min
May 3, 10:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	59 min
May 5, 4:24 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	36 hr
May 5, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	50 min
May 5, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	38 min
May 6, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 6, 6:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	53 min
May 6, 6:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
May 6, 7:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
May 6, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	44 min
May 6, 9:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	18 days
May 6, 9:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	5 hr
May 6, 11:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	53 min
May 6, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	43 min
May 6, 12:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 9, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 9, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	45 min
May 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	39 min
May 10, 11:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
May 10, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 10, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
May 10, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	43 min
May 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
May 10, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	55 min
May 11, 5:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	12 hr
May 16, 12:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	JAN	12 hr
May 23, 4:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	23 hr
Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Jun 14, 12:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Jun 21, 4:04 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	4 days
Jun 27, 4:48 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	38 hr
Jun 28, 6:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 12, 8:25 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	32 hr
Jul 13, 9:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Jul 14, 7:10 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	2 hr
Jul 15, 3:35 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	15 hr
Jul 16, 12:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Jul 16, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	31 min
Jul 16, 10:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
Jul 22, 6:57 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	34 min
Jul 26, 9:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 27, 3:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	24 hr
Jul 28, 11:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Jul 28, 7:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	12 hr
Jul 29, 7:12 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	2 hr
Jul 29, 8:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	112 min
Jul 29, 9:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	24 min
Jul 29, 9:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	2 hr
Jul 29, 2:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	6 days
Jul 29, 8:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	35 hr
Jul 30, 2:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Jul 30, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	39 min
Jul 30, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	43 min
Jul 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	47 min
Jul 31, 1:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	2 hr
Aug 20, 3:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	2 hr
Aug 21, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	45 min
Aug 21, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	25 min
Sep 14, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	48 min
Sep 14, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	58 min
Sep 15, 11:14 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Sep 21, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Sep 22, 3:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	15 hr
Sep 22, 4:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	119 min
Sep 23, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	3 hr
Sep 24, 4:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	12 hr
Sep 27, 10:14 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	30 days
Oct 4, 3:48 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	17 hr
Oct 6, 8:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Oct 8, 4:32 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	4 hr
Oct 8, 2:57 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	25 hr
Oct 9, 11:26 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Oct 13, 4:23 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	22 hr
Oct 13, 8:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	3 hr
Oct 15, 7:26 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	2 hr
Oct 17, 4:25 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	15 hr
Oct 21, 4:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	30 hr
Oct 22, 6:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	34 min
Oct 22, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	3 hr
Oct 27, 3:35 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	18 hr
Oct 29, 4:26 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	24 hr
Oct 30, 10:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Oct 30, 2:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	94 min
Nov 1, 1:45 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	JAN	4 days
Nov 5, 10:28 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	22 hr
Nov 9, 3:54 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	25 hr
Nov 10, 2:54 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	25 hr
Nov 16, 9:37 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	18 hr
Nov 20, 3:36 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	10 hr
Nov 26, 4:39 AM CST	Freeze Warning	JAN	27 hr
Nov 30, 10:25 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	7 hr
Dec 2, 9:03 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	9 hr
Dec 4, 4:00 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	JAN	23 hr
Dec 4, 5:22 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Dec 7, 3:19 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	48 hr
Dec 8, 12:12 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
Dec 8, 1:25 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Dec 8, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	32 min
Dec 8, 8:08 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	97 min
Dec 8, 8:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	31 min
Dec 8, 8:33 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Dec 9, 12:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	31 min
Dec 9, 11:35 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	93 min
Dec 10, 9:44 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	6 hr
Dec 13, 3:37 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	17 hr
Dec 14, 9:06 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	19 hr
Dec 18, 11:56 AM CST	River Flood Warning	JAN	31 hr
Dec 19, 4:49 AM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	13 hr
Dec 22, 3:28 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	43 hr
Dec 23, 4:31 AM CST	Flash Flood Watch	JAN	37 hr
Dec 23, 3:03 PM CST	Wind Advisory	JAN	36 hr
Dec 24, 10:13 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	62 min
Dec 24, 10:37 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Dec 24, 1:14 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	61 min
Dec 24, 1:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	119 min
Dec 24, 5:00 PM CST	Lake Wind Advisory	JAN	21 hr
Dec 30, 5:30 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	15 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	25
Tornado Warning	7
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	7
Tornado Watch	15
Mesoscale Discussion	44
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	2
Flash Flood Warning	14
River Flood Warning	10
Flash Flood Watch	17
Flood Watch	1
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	2
Heat
Heat Advisory	4
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Hard Freeze Warning	1
Freeze Watch	1
Hard Freeze Watch	1
Wind and dust
Lake Wind Advisory	32
Wind Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	8

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2008 2010

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.