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Tornado Warnings in Wayne County, Mississippi, 2022

17 tornado warnings in 2022. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Wayne County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2022. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
17
Busiest month
March8 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 22, 20224 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

6 of 17 tornado warnings covering Wayne County in 2022 had a tornado report inside them; 7 of 7 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 28 minutes after it went out.

Wayne County, 2022

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings17665%7100%28 min

Each office's whole area, 2022

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Mobile, AL: tornado warnings1133569%8579%17 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 9, 1:52 PM CSTTornado WarningMOB23 min
Mar 18, 7:49 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB11 min
Mar 22, 4:11 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB49 min
Mar 22, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB38 min
Mar 22, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB48 min
Mar 22, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB44 min
Mar 30, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB52 min
Mar 30, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB30 min
Mar 30, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB31 min
Apr 5, 8:11 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB49 min
Apr 5, 8:33 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB42 min
Oct 29, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB39 min
Nov 29, 11:25 PM CSTTornado WarningMOB50 min
Nov 29, 11:50 PM CSTTornado WarningMOB40 min
Dec 14, 1:35 PM CSTTornado WarningMOB40 min
Dec 14, 2:54 PM CSTTornado WarningMOB16 min
Dec 14, 3:04 PM CSTTornado WarningMOB41 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.