Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, August 2008
131 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 2008. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 131
- Busiest day
- August 3, 200862 severe thunderstorm warnings
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By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Quitman, Tate, Tunica | 41 min |
| Jul 31, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc, Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc, Yalobusha | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Tishomingo | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tishomingo | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Itawamba, Lee | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Pontotoc | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Alcorn, Prentiss | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Union | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Benton, Union | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee, Pontotoc, Union | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Panola | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 42 min |
| Aug 2, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Webster | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Noxubee | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Union | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Clay, Oktibbeha, Webster | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clay, Lowndes | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Choctaw, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster, Winston | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Yalobusha | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba, Winston | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Lafayette, Yalobusha | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Leake, Neshoba | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Lauderdale, Newton | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Grenada, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Yalobusha | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Newton | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Scott, Yazoo | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Attala, Holmes, Leake | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Montgomery | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jasper, Newton, Rankin, Scott, Smith | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 51 min |
| Aug 2, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Sharkey, Washington, Yazoo | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Sunflower | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Hinds, Issaquena, Madison, Rankin, Sharkey and 2 more | 44 min |
| Aug 2, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion | 43 min |
| Aug 2, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Humphreys, Sharkey, Yazoo | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Issaquena, Sharkey, Warren | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena | 43 min |
| Aug 3, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson, Warren | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Adams | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Claiborne, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 35 min |
| Aug 3, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Harrison | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest | 31 min |
| Aug 3, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Pearl River | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 23 min |
| Aug 3, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Yazoo | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Leflore | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 53 min |
| Aug 3, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar | 49 min |
| Aug 3, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | DeSoto, Tate, Tunica | 51 min |
| Aug 3, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Coahoma, Tunica | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tunica | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tate, Tunica | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Panola, Quitman, Tate | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 1:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Yalobusha | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Bolivar, Sunflower | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Pontotoc, Union | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lafayette, Pontotoc, Yalobusha | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 2:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Carroll, Holmes, Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Warren | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Issaquena, Washington | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lauderdale | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 17 min |
| Aug 7, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Yazoo | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Madison, Newton, Scott | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Simpson, Smith | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 37 min |
| Aug 7, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Lauderdale | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Clarke, Jasper, Jones | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones, Lamar, Marion | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Amite, Pike | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lawrence, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pike, Walthall | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Marion | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Covington, Forrest, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar | 42 min |
| Aug 12, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Forrest, Jones, Lamar | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Pearl River | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 52 min |
| Aug 12, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Pearl River | 30 min |
| Aug 12, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 54 min |
| Aug 12, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Hancock, Harrison, Jackson | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Stone, Wayne | 57 min |
| Aug 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 30 min |
| Aug 15, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Grenada | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Tallahatchie, Yalobusha | 50 min |
| Aug 15, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Calhoun, Chickasaw, Pontotoc | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Madison, Rankin | 46 min |
| Aug 15, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Monroe | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe | 33 min |
| Aug 15, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Rankin, Scott, Smith | 31 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Holmes County10
- Lafayette County9
- Yalobusha County9
- Pontotoc County9
- Madison County9
- Yazoo County9
- Calhoun County8
- Chickasaw County7
- Rankin County7
- Panola County6
- Union County6
- Newton County6
- Scott County6
- Bolivar County6
- Jones County6
- Pearl River County6
- Tunica County5
- Lowndes County5
- Lee County5
- Leake County5
- Leflore County5
- Humphreys County5
- Washington County5
- Sunflower County5
- Claiborne County5
- Issaquena County5
- Covington County5
- Jefferson Davis County5
- Lamar County5
- Lawrence County5
- Forrest County5
- Perry County5
- Monroe County5
- Greene County5
- Tate County4
- Itawamba County4
- Neshoba County4
- Clarke County4
- Jasper County4
- Sharkey County4
39 more counties
- Warren County4
- Marion County4
- Harrison County4
- Hancock County4
- Wayne County4
- Quitman County3
- Tallahatchie County3
- Clay County3
- Webster County3
- Kemper County3
- Choctaw County3
- Montgomery County3
- Lauderdale County3
- Carroll County3
- Grenada County3
- Hinds County3
- Smith County3
- Jefferson County3
- Stone County3
- George County3
- Tishomingo County2
- Noxubee County2
- Oktibbeha County2
- Winston County2
- Attala County2
- Pike County2
- Jackson County2
- Alcorn County1
- Prentiss County1
- Benton County1
- Copiah County1
- Adams County1
- DeSoto County1
- Coahoma County1
- Marshall County1
- Simpson County1
- Amite County1
- Lincoln County1
- Walthall County1
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Sources
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