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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pike County, Mississippi

458 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Pike County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
458
Busiest year
200022 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
11over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 75% of hail, wind and damage reports in Pike County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 65% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200815753%1080%35 min
200921576%978%13 min
20108275%475%30 min
201112650%1030%14 min
201213192%2100%48 min
20137186%250%20 min
20149367%560%14 min
201516944%8100%21 min
201614471%0
201711555%4100%22 min
20186350%3100%29 min
201915567%6100%26 min
202011282%633%42 min
202114564%2100%9 min
202212283%1100%10 min
202317476%475%7 min
202411109%3100%24 min
202520860%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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 13, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX50 min
Sep 13, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX45 min
Aug 21, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX39 min
Aug 21, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX50 min
Aug 21, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLIX42 min
Aug 21, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX49 min
Aug 20, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX68 min
Aug 17, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX41 min
Jul 1, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX34 min
May 9, 5:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX44 min
May 6, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX60 min
May 6, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLIX61 min

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.