Winter Storm Watches in Mississippi
70 winter storm watches since 1986. 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Watches
- 70
- Busiest year
- 20119 winter storm watches
- Average year
- 4over 16 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Benton County25
- DeSoto County25
- Marshall County25
- Tippah County23
- Alcorn County22
- Tate County22
- Tunica County22
- Coahoma County21
- Grenada County21
- Panola County21
- Quitman County21
- Tishomingo County21
- Carroll County20
- Leflore County20
- Prentiss County20
- Union County20
- Washington County20
- Bolivar County19
- Humphreys County19
- Issaquena County19
- Itawamba County19
- Lafayette County19
- Lee County19
- Montgomery County19
- Pontotoc County19
- Sharkey County19
- Sunflower County19
- Webster County19
- Tallahatchie County18
- Calhoun County17
- Chickasaw County17
- Clay County17
- Holmes County17
- Monroe County17
- Yalobusha County17
- Choctaw County17
- Lowndes County16
- Oktibbeha County16
- Yazoo County16
- Leake County15
42 more counties
- Madison County15
- Neshoba County15
- Attala County15
- Noxubee County15
- Winston County15
- Hinds County14
- Rankin County13
- Scott County13
- Warren County13
- Kemper County11
- Copiah County11
- Claiborne County11
- Franklin County10
- Lincoln County10
- Simpson County10
- Adams County10
- Jefferson County10
- Newton County9
- Smith County9
- Lauderdale County8
- Jefferson Davis County8
- Lawrence County8
- Amite County8
- Pike County8
- Walthall County8
- Wilkinson County8
- Clarke County7
- Covington County7
- Forrest County7
- Jasper County7
- Jones County7
- Lamar County7
- Marion County7
- Pearl River County6
- Greene County5
- Perry County5
- Wayne County5
- Stone County4
- George County3
- Hancock County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
The latest winter storm watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 1:50 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | LIX | Amite, Pike, Walthall, Wilkinson | 3 days |
| Jan 21, 12:37 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | JAN | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne and 29 more | 63 hr |
| Jan 21, 1:43 AM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MEG | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 34 hr |
Nearby
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.