Weather Center: Mississippi

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3 red flag warnings touch Mississippi. 3 red flag warnings (touching Mississippi)

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NWS alerts checked 05:26Z · Data: NOAA/NWS

Sources & update times

SPC Day 1 outlook issued 05:14Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 2 outlook issued 16 Oct 17:24Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 3 outlook issued 16 Oct 19:22Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC discussions checked 05:26Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC storm reports checked 05:25Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

WPC Day 1 outlook issued 00:56Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 2 outlook issued 16 Oct 19:17Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 3 outlook issued 16 Oct 19:17Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

Each feed is judged on its own clock. The masthead’s reading is the site’s publishing health, which is a different thing: a publishing delay does not make a freshly read warning stale, and a fresh check does not make an old outlook newly issued.

NWS warnings / MRMS selected rainfall: feeds current

NWS warnings: Feed current; checked 05:26Z.

MRMS selected rainfall: Feed current; checked 05:25Z.

Checked means retrieved, not newly issued. Each graphic retains its issue, observation, initialization or valid time. Site publishing status is separate.

Hazard & forecast product

Rain in the past 24 hours, MRMS radar estimate

Source: NOAA MRMS

Rain that fell: MRMS radar estimate, 24 hours, in inches

0.01 to 0.1 in
0.1 to 0.25 in
0.25 to 0.5 in highest in the state
0.5 to 0.75 in
0.75 to 1 in
1 to 1.5 in
1.5 to 2 in
2 to 3 in
3 to 4 in
4 to 6 in
6 to 8 in
8 to 10 in
10 in or more
No radar estimate

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Red Flag Warning 3
Freeze Warning outside Mississippi

MRMS radar estimate of the rain that fell, the 24 hours 16 Oct 05:00Z to 05:00Z · Data: NOAA/MRMS. A measurement of the past, from radar alone: not a forecast, and not corrected to rain gauges. Warnings and watches are as of 05:26Z (now), not for the hours the rain fell in.

Everything on the map, as a list

Rain that fell in the 24 hours to 05:00Z: up to 6 to 8 in anywhere on the map, by radar estimate
Red Flag Warning: Ashley; Chicot; Morehouse; West Carroll; East Carroll; Richland; Madison; Franklin; Catahoula; Tensas; Concordia; Bolivar; Sunflower; Leflore; Grenada; Carroll; Montgomery; Webster; Clay; Lowndes; Choctaw; Oktibbeha; Washington; Humphreys; Holmes; Attala; Winston; Noxubee; Issaquena; Sharkey; Yazoo; Madison; Leake; Neshoba; Kemper; Warren; Hinds; Rankin; Scott; Newton; Lauderdale; Claiborne; Copiah; Simpson; Smith; Jasper; Clarke; Jefferson; Adams; Franklin; Lincoln; Lawrence; Jefferson Davis; Covington; Jones; Marion; Lamar; Forrest, until 18 Oct 00:00Z
Red Flag Warning: Wayne; Perry; Greene; Stone; George, until 18 Oct 00:00Z
Red Flag Warning: Pointe Coupee; West Feliciana; East Feliciana; St. Helena; Washington; Iberville; West Baton Rouge; East Baton Rouge; Assumption; St. James; Northern Tangipahoa; Southeast St. Tammany; Northern St. Tammany; Southwestern St. Tammany; Central Tangipahoa; Lower Tangipahoa; Northern Livingston; Southern Livingston; Western Ascension; Eastern Ascension; Wilkinson; Amite; Pike; Walthall; Pearl River; Hancock; Harrison; Jackson, until 18 Oct 01:00Z
Outside Mississippi, for context: Freeze Warning: Avery; Madison; Yancey; Mitchell; Swain; Haywood; Buncombe; Graham; Northern Jackson; Macon; Southern Jackson, until 18 Oct 13:00Z
Outside Mississippi, for context: Red Flag Warning: Vernon; Rapides; Avoyelles; Beauregard; Tyler; Northern Jasper; Northern Newton, until 06:00Z
Outside Mississippi, for context: Red Flag Warning: Lincoln; Union; Jackson; Ouachita; Natchitoches; Winn; Grant; Caldwell; La Salle; Sevier; Howard; Little River; Hempstead; Nevada; Miller; Lafayette; Columbia; Union; Caddo; Bossier; Webster; Claiborne; De Soto; Red River; Bienville; Sabine; McCurtain; Red River; Bowie; Franklin; Titus; Camp; Morris; Cass; Wood; Upshur; Marion; Smith; Gregg; Harrison; Cherokee; Rusk; Panola; Nacogdoches; Shelby; Angelina; San Augustine; Sabine, until 06:00Z
Outside Mississippi, for context: Red Flag Warning: Lincoln; Union; Jackson; Ouachita; Natchitoches; Winn; Grant; Caldwell; La Salle, until 18 Oct 00:00Z
Outside Mississippi, for context: Red Flag Warning: Vernon; Rapides; Avoyelles; Beauregard; Tyler; Northern Jasper; Northern Newton; Allen; Evangeline; St. Landry; Lafayette; Upper St. Martin; Lower St. Martin; West Cameron; East Cameron; Northern Calcasieu; Northern Jefferson Davis; Northern Acadia; Upper Vermilion; Upper Iberia; Upper St. Mary; Southern Calcasieu; Southern Jefferson Davis; Southern Acadia; Lower Vermilion; Lower Iberia; Lower St. Mary; Hardin; Southern Jasper; Southern Newton; Upper Jefferson; Northern Orange; Lower Jefferson; Southern Orange, until 18 Oct 01:00Z

Rain in the past 24 hours for Mississippi

MRMS radar estimate · the past, not a forecast

Most anywhere in Mississippi: 0.25 to 0.5 in

MRMS estimates 0.25 to 0.5 in fell at the most, somewhere in the state in the 24 hours to 05:00Z.

The highest cell anywhere in the state, from its outline; not every point in it.

When: 16 Oct 05:00Z to 05:00Z: the 24 hours MRMS summed. Written 05:08Z.
Limits: Radar alone, not corrected to rain gauges: it can be too high or too low, most far from a radar, in mountains, and where hail or melting snow brightens the echo. It says nothing of what will fall, and is not a flood warning.

Forecast details

NOAA’s Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor system (MRMS) mosaics every radar into one estimate of the rain that fell, a grid about 1 km across, which this page samples every 0.05°, about 5 km. This is its radar-only estimate, written every hour. River Forecast Centers make a slower estimate corrected to rain gauges; this is not that. MRMS products.

Coming days · Mississippi

2026-10-17Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: No excessive-rainfall area outlined 2026-10-18Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: No excessive-rainfall area outlined

These are daily outlooks, not arrival times. Days 4–8 retain SPC’s predictability and potential-too-low wording in the dated outlook controls.

Severe storms

SPC’s outlook is not reported. SPC’s convective outlook, on its own scale.

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Recent reports

Reporting period: 12Z 16 Oct – 12Z 17 Oct

0 tornado · 0 wind · 0 hail in Mississippi

Preliminary reports: a count of reports, not of storms. None reported is not proof that nothing happened.

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No watches or mesoscale discussions in Mississippi. Watches, discussions and warnings in the Live tracker

Warnings in Mississippi

3 warnings touching Mississippi

3 warnings touch Mississippi, most urgent first. A warning across a state line is counted here and in the other state.

NWS alerts checked 05:26Z · Data: NOAA/NWS

Since 04:27Z: no change in the warnings.

Warnings 3

Red flag Ashley; Chicot; Morehouse; West Carroll; East Carroll; Richland; Madison; Franklin; Catahoula; Tensas; Concordia; Bolivar; Sunflower; Leflore; Grenada; Carroll; Montgomery; Webster; Clay; Lowndes; Choctaw; Oktibbeha; Washington; Humphreys; Holmes; Attala; Winston; Noxubee; Issaquena; Sharkey; Yazoo; Madison; Leake; Neshoba; Kemper; Warren; Hinds; Rankin; Scott; Newton; Lauderdale; Claiborne; Copiah; Simpson; Smith; Jasper; Clarke; Jefferson; Adams; Franklin; Lincoln; Lawrence; Jefferson Davis; Covington; Jones; Marion; Lamar; Forrest until 18 Oct 00:00Z crosses Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Track: Red Flag Warning, Ashley; Chicot; Morehouse; West Carroll; East Carroll; Richland; Madison; Franklin; Catahoula; Tensas; Concordia; Bolivar; Sunflower; Leflore; Grenada; Carroll; Montgomery; Webster; Clay; Lowndes; Choctaw; Oktibbeha; Washington; Humphreys; Holmes; Attala; Winston; Noxubee; Issaquena; Sharkey; Yazoo; Madison; Leake; Neshoba; Kemper; Warren; Hinds; Rankin; Scott; Newton; Lauderdale; Claiborne; Copiah; Simpson; Smith; Jasper; Clarke; Jefferson; Adams; Franklin; Lincoln; Lawrence; Jefferson Davis; Covington; Jones; Marion; Lamar; Forrest
Red flag Wayne; Perry; Greene; Stone; George until 18 Oct 00:00Z Track: Red Flag Warning, Wayne; Perry; Greene; Stone; George
Red flag Pointe Coupee; West Feliciana; East Feliciana; St. Helena; Washington; Iberville; West Baton Rouge; East Baton Rouge; Assumption; St. James; Northern Tangipahoa; Southeast St. Tammany; Northern St. Tammany; Southwestern St. Tammany; Central Tangipahoa; Lower Tangipahoa; Northern Livingston; Southern Livingston; Western Ascension; Eastern Ascension; Wilkinson; Amite; Pike; Walthall; Pearl River; Hancock; Harrison; Jackson until 18 Oct 01:00Z crosses Louisiana and Mississippi Track: Red Flag Warning, Pointe Coupee; West Feliciana; East Feliciana; St. Helena; Washington; Iberville; West Baton Rouge; East Baton Rouge; Assumption; St. James; Northern Tangipahoa; Southeast St. Tammany; Northern St. Tammany; Southwestern St. Tammany; Central Tangipahoa; Lower Tangipahoa; Northern Livingston; Southern Livingston; Western Ascension; Eastern Ascension; Wilkinson; Amite; Pike; Walthall; Pearl River; Hancock; Harrison; Jackson

All 3 warnings touching Mississippi, with their full text, in the Live tracker

65 warnings elsewhere in the country: the national list. Track Mississippi live

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