Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Prentiss County, Mississippi

3,393 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Prentiss County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,393
Warnings
963
Watches
646
Advisories
787
Busiest year
2011271 alerts
Average year
83over 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, 81% of tornado reports in Prentiss County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 15 minutes before, and 64% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200813562%1100%14 min
200920100%20%
20109544%0
201114657%0
20122150%0
201420100%0
2015220%580%30 min
201620100%0
20176350%3100%16 min
20189189%0
20195340%1100%0 min
20204325%2100%6 min
20215260%2100%4 min
202210100%0
20239456%0
202420100%0
202590100%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
200817947%580%27 min
2009291838%888%19 min
2010201145%3100%29 min
2011552849%1369%38 min
2012462448%475%5 min
201311555%0
2014251156%367%19 min
201511645%0
20168275%333%35 min
201717947%1060%27 min
2018171229%1663%22 min
201911918%367%18 min
2020211338%475%25 min
2021191332%425%8 min
2022171229%1164%19 min
2023362628%6100%32 min
20243233%0
2025262119%1283%14 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811736%3100%86 min
2009161038%4100%73 min
201017759%2100%13 min
201120480%0
20127357%0
20132150%1100%33 min
201413285%0
20159367%0
201640100%0
2017110%2100%24 min
20185180%0
20197271%1100%162 min
20205260%250%176 min
20219633%2100%55 min
20234175%1100%20 min
2024110%1100%48 min
20255340%1100%157 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
Aug 22, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG53 min
Aug 22, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG46 min
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 1, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG44 min
Jun 1, 12:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG36 min
Jun 1, 11:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG53 min
Apr 29, 5:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG23 min
Apr 28, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG65 min
Apr 28, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG50 min
Apr 28, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG18 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.