Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Marion County, Mississippi

3,609 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Marion County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,609
Warnings
1,098
Watches
659
Advisories
626
Busiest year
2023206 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, 84% of tornado reports in Marion County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 56% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200816475%3100%15 min
200920100%0
201010100%0
20116267%367%21 min
20126267%3100%8 min
20135260%2100%16 min
20144250%13100%28 min
20153167%30%
20163233%1100%3 min
20173233%0
201810100%0
20194250%4100%28 min
2020550%1493%22 min
2021110%1100%0 min
20227357%20%
20234250%30%
202410100%0
20259633%9100%30 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
2008281161%1958%20 min
2009311745%888%22 min
2010151033%1164%25 min
2011241633%1464%21 min
201219858%667%19 min
201312467%786%23 min
201413377%333%13 min
201513746%475%20 min
201614843%1173%29 min
20179811%1292%28 min
201814936%1080%22 min
201914657%20%
202012118%1362%16 min
2021550%667%16 min
202213931%5100%19 min
2023261350%1377%15 min
202412833%9100%17 min
2025181044%683%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%2100%18 min
200910820%786%114 min
20107443%3100%53 min
20119633%580%43 min
201215753%1090%172 min
20138450%3100%79 min
20146183%2100%118 min
20155340%250%65 min
20163233%11100%449 min
201710730%771%77 min
20189811%888%83 min
20196433%0
20204325%450%5 min
2021330%7100%46 min
20226433%2100%52 min
202310100%0
202440100%10%
20252150%2100%54 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 21, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN55 min
Aug 21, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatJAN46 min
Aug 21, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN40 min
Aug 21, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatJAN61 min
Aug 21, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN72 min
Aug 21, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN58 min
Aug 21, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN59 min
Aug 20, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN67 min
Aug 20, 12:46 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN31 hr
Aug 17, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN54 min
Aug 17, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN51 min
Aug 16, 2:15 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN42 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.