Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Panola County, Mississippi

3,577 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Panola County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,577
Warnings
1,034
Watches
667
Advisories
853
Busiest year
2011255 alerts
Average year
97over 37 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, 79% of tornado reports in Panola County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 17 minutes before, and 71% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200812650%3100%19 min
200930100%0
20106267%1100%6 min
201118950%0
201220100%0
20135340%3100%14 min
20149189%0
20155260%1100%20 min
2016110%0
201730100%0
201840100%0
20204175%10%
20212150%0
202210100%20%
20238188%3100%20 min
202410100%0
202511191%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
2008371949%1173%24 min
2009382339%1292%28 min
2010381755%1861%17 min
2011562359%1292%37379 min
2012271352%5100%17 min
20139367%425%22 min
2014311165%978%23 min
201518572%650%26 min
20167357%10%
201714564%1100%13 min
201817665%786%9 min
201911645%580%33 min
2020171229%11100%20 min
202116944%540%27 min
2022181044%4100%25 min
2023302033%1090%13 min
20248450%2100%18 min
2025352237%978%33 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200813746%250%54 min
2009231343%1100%66 min
201023770%3100%73 min
201110640%1100%48 min
20126183%0
201311282%2100%216 min
2014100100%0
201512192%250%8 min
201612283%1100%37 min
20173233%0
201860100%10%
201910100%0
202030100%10%
2021191332%4100%200 min
202220100%0
2023220%1100%43 min
20254325%0

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
Aug 22, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG44 min
Aug 22, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG49 min
Aug 22, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG41 min
Aug 21, 1:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG33 min
Aug 21, 1:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG43 min
Aug 21, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG51 min
Aug 21, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG44 min
Aug 18, 11:41 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG32 hr
Aug 16, 7:58 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG24 hr
Aug 12, 4:06 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG5 days
Jul 25, 11:17 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG3 days
Jul 19, 11:47 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG57 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.