Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Tunica County, Mississippi

3,751 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Tunica County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,751
Warnings
1,064
Watches
657
Advisories
993
Busiest year
2011255 alerts
Average year
99over 38 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, 80% of tornado reports in Tunica County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 32 minutes before, and 79% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087271%0
200920100%0
201040100%0
201111645%3100%28 min
201290100%0
20133233%0
201440100%0
201610100%0
201720100%0
201810100%0
2019010%
202020100%0
202150100%0
202220100%0
20238363%1100%45 min
20257186%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
2008301743%7100%22 min
2009271544%743%26 min
2010331748%978%25 min
2011461665%683%16 min
201219763%633%29 min
201316663%450%25 min
2014311261%1070%30 min
201510370%20%
20163233%367%23 min
20177443%20%
201822482%0
201915847%10%
2020231726%667%28 min
202117853%333%20 min
2022241538%786%32 min
2023261831%520%32 min
202410730%0
2025472351%989%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814843%0
2009271448%0
201017288%1100%343 min
201115753%2100%240 min
201220100%0
20137357%0
201410460%0
201560100%0
201617476%0
20176267%367%202 min
201850100%0
201920100%0
202110640%0
20223167%0
2023330%10%
202510730%10%

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, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG41 min
Aug 22, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG52 min
Aug 21, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG44 min
Aug 18, 11:41 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG32 hr
Aug 17, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG58 min
Aug 17, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG62 min
Aug 17, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG58 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 19, 11:47 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG57 hr
Jul 1, 12:48 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG31 hr

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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.