Alert archive / Mississippi

Weather alerts in Yazoo County, Mississippi

4,287 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Yazoo County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,287
Warnings
1,664
Watches
726
Advisories
665
Busiest year
2008257 alerts
Average year
105over 41 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, 90% of tornado reports in Yazoo County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 28 minutes before, and 63% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200821862%5100%22 min
200970100%0
201013838%12100%39 min
20116267%1100%19 min
20126267%1100%16 min
201320100%0
20144175%2100%23 min
201530100%0
201640100%10%
20176267%4100%47 min
20186183%520%9 min
20197357%1100%33 min
2020440%9100%21 min
2021330%683%22 min
202216756%8100%32 min
20247357%4100%23 min
20256183%2100%4 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008361656%1553%24 min
2009241154%838%23 min
2010321359%956%26 min
2011452447%2190%22 min
2012401855%2688%30 min
2013231343%967%22 min
2014351849%1362%11 min
2015271256%1553%19 min
2016231343%2090%15 min
2017251540%11100%24 min
2018402440%2959%24 min
2019362142%1656%21 min
2020301743%17100%28 min
2021231343%1794%21 min
2022352431%2045%32 min
2023442055%1292%24 min
2024261735%1173%17 min
2025402440%8100%19 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200817853%475%99 min
200916756%475%89 min
20107271%0
201110100%367%68 min
20124325%450%64 min
20138538%475%54 min
2014880%10100%183 min
20155260%10%
20164175%0
20176350%757%63 min
20182150%367%134 min
20194325%875%64 min
2020440%1080%95 min
20214250%250%55 min
20222150%1100%131 min
2023010%
20243233%875%386 min
20254250%333%25 min

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
Sep 21, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN56 min
Sep 21, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN63 min
Aug 20, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN82 min
Aug 20, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN63 min
Aug 20, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN56 min
Aug 20, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN46 min
Aug 20, 12:46 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN31 hr
Aug 19, 3:12 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN18 hr
Aug 16, 2:15 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN42 hr
Jul 28, 2:00 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN31 hr
Jul 26, 12:01 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN57 hr
Jul 21, 1:50 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningJAN29 hr

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.