Alert archive / Mississippi / Smith County

Weather alerts in Smith County, Mississippi, 2024

170 weather alerts in 2024, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Smith County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 170
Warnings: 40
Watches: 21
Advisories: 54
Busiest month: January25 alerts
Busiest day: May 10, 20247 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

2 of 2 tornado warnings covering Smith County in 2024 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 22 minutes after it went out.

Smith County, 2024

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	2	2	0%	1	100%	22 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	22	14	36%	8	50%	46 min
Flash flood warnings	8	6	25%	1	100%	145 min

Each office's whole area, 2024

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Jackson, MS: tornado warnings	51	21	59%	75	76%	22 min
NWS Jackson, MS: severe thunderstorm warnings	300	174	42%	631	76%	27 min
NWS Jackson, MS: flash flood warnings	71	38	46%	114	85%	127 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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 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	Lasted
Jan 7, 3:57 AM CST	Flood Watch	JAN	51 hr
Jan 7, 2:34 PM CST	Wind Advisory	JAN	51 hr
Jan 8, 10:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	58 min
Jan 8, 11:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	3 hr
Jan 11, 3:31 AM CST	Wind Advisory	JAN	38 hr
Jan 12, 3:57 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jan 12, 7:55 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	95 min
Jan 12, 8:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	64 min
Jan 12, 10:11 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Jan 14, 3:32 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	JAN	50 hr
Jan 15, 3:39 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	JAN	32 hr
Jan 15, 3:50 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	JAN	54 hr
Jan 15, 7:32 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Jan 18, 3:39 AM CST	Hard Freeze Warning	JAN	3 days
Jan 19, 3:56 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	JAN	32 hr
Jan 20, 2:48 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Jan 23, 3:37 AM CST	Flood Watch	JAN	57 hr
Jan 24, 9:23 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	6 hr
Jan 24, 9:26 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	6 hr
Jan 24, 9:37 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	38 min
Jan 24, 11:01 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	29 min
Jan 24, 11:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	45 min
Jan 25, 9:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	63 min
Jan 25, 10:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	57 min
Jan 25, 10:24 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	14 hr
Feb 3, 9:57 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	JAN	63 min
Feb 10, 9:28 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Feb 11, 11:04 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Feb 11, 12:18 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 11, 6:05 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Feb 11, 6:56 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Mar 1, 8:00 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	14 hr
Mar 2, 2:06 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	20 hr
Mar 3, 2:54 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	18 hr
Mar 5, 9:44 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	12 hr
Mar 7, 2:12 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	8 hr
Mar 8, 4:33 AM CST	Flood Watch	JAN	15 hr
Mar 8, 11:36 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	5 hr
Mar 14, 3:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Mar 15, 9:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 15, 9:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	35 min
Mar 17, 2:32 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	JAN	13 hr
Mar 17, 3:10 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	JAN	42 hr
Mar 24, 3:05 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	JAN	46 hr
Mar 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 25, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 25, 9:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Mar 25, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	37 min
Mar 25, 11:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 26, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	34 min
Apr 2, 12:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 2, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	27 min
Apr 2, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	53 min
Apr 8, 9:56 AM CDT	Flood Watch	JAN	57 hr
Apr 9, 4:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	25 min
Apr 9, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 10, 5:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Apr 10, 5:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Apr 10, 6:06 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Apr 10, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	53 min
Apr 10, 11:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Apr 10, 3:13 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	JAN	28 hr
Apr 30, 4:46 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	4 hr
May 2, 2:50 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	6 hr
May 3, 8:58 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	12 hr
May 9, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 9, 10:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
May 9, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	JAN	65 min
May 9, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	59 min
May 9, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	64 min
May 9, 11:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
May 9, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	21 min
May 12, 1:38 PM CDT	Flood Watch	JAN	23 hr
May 13, 1:56 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	79 min
May 13, 4:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	69 min
May 13, 10:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	72 min
May 15, 1:52 PM CDT	Flood Watch	JAN	63 hr
May 17, 7:20 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	4 hr
May 17, 7:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	44 min
May 17, 8:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	58 min
May 18, 5:13 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	4 hr
May 23, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	65 min
May 27, 1:10 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 27, 2:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
May 31, 2:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 1, 6:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	59 min
Jun 3, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	23 min
Jun 3, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 3, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	JAN	74 min
Jun 4, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	43 min
Jun 4, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jun 4, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	65 min
Jun 4, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	59 min
Jun 5, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	63 min
Jun 16, 3:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	46 min
Jun 23, 1:37 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	24 hr
Jun 24, 2:25 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	42 hr
Jun 24, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	37 min
Jun 24, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	47 min
Jun 25, 5:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	51 min
Jun 25, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	44 min
Jun 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	52 min
Jun 25, 9:58 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	21 hr
Jun 26, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	45 min
Jun 28, 1:34 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	54 hr
Jun 30, 1:32 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Jul 1, 2:47 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	29 hr
Jul 2, 2:22 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	JAN	30 hr
Jul 2, 2:22 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Jul 3, 3:35 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	40 hr
Jul 5, 2:11 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	17 hr
Jul 5, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	63 min
Jul 7, 12:44 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	7 hr
Jul 8, 2:23 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	18 hr
Jul 12, 2:15 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	29 hr
Jul 13, 3:07 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	40 hr
Jul 13, 2:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	60 min
Jul 14, 1:56 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	29 hr
Jul 14, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	53 min
Jul 15, 2:10 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Jul 15, 5:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	74 min
Jul 16, 1:06 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Jul 18, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	53 min
Jul 18, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	60 min
Jul 18, 5:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	2 hr
Jul 21, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	66 min
Jul 21, 4:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	2 hr
Jul 28, 1:18 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Jul 29, 1:25 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Jul 30, 2:42 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	28 hr
Jul 31, 2:13 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	29 hr
Aug 1, 4:02 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	39 hr
Aug 2, 2:00 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Aug 4, 1:11 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Aug 5, 1:50 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	29 hr
Aug 6, 1:12 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Aug 12, 1:38 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	30 hr
Aug 13, 1:24 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	31 hr
Aug 14, 2:35 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	3 days
Aug 14, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	37 min
Aug 14, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	49 min
Aug 15, 3:31 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	JAN	64 hr
Aug 17, 1:48 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	JAN	30 hr
Aug 18, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	35 min
Aug 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	33 min
Aug 28, 7:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	29 min
Aug 29, 2:39 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	JAN	15 hr
Aug 29, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	56 min
Sep 6, 5:59 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JAN	6 hr
Sep 10, 2:18 PM CDT	Flood Watch	JAN	47 hr
Sep 11, 2:35 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	JAN	28 hr
Sep 24, 10:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	JAN	66 min
Oct 28, 2:01 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	19 hr
Nov 10, 9:40 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	8 hr
Nov 13, 2:24 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Nov 13, 8:06 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Nov 22, 2:23 AM CST	Freeze Warning	JAN	30 hr
Nov 27, 3:42 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	5 hr
Nov 28, 2:05 PM CST	Freeze Watch	JAN	22 hr
Nov 28, 2:05 PM CST	Freeze Warning	JAN	42 hr
Dec 10, 5:34 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Dec 16, 11:52 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	9 hr
Dec 27, 9:11 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	12 hr
Dec 28, 7:38 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Dec 28, 2:17 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	8 hr
Dec 28, 3:56 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Dec 28, 6:04 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Dec 28, 7:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	58 min
Dec 28, 7:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	64 min
Dec 29, 9:01 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	JAN	13 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	22
Tornado Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	4
Tornado Watch	8
Mesoscale Discussion	24
Special Weather Statement	31
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	8
Flood Watch	7
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	1
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Heat Advisory	29
Cold
Freeze Warning	3
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Freeze Watch	2
Wind Chill Advisory	3
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	5
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	16

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2023 2025

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.