Live National Weather Service alerts, NEXRAD weather radar, USGS river and stream gauges, Storm Prediction Center convective outlooks, Local Storm Reports, 5-day forecast, air quality, and severe-weather notifications for Forrest County, MS (FIPS 28035) in Mississippi. Free, no login, no ads.
Forrest County, MS is one of the counties of Mississippi covered by BloomWX. Forrest County, MS has a population of approximately 77,917 (2022 estimate, US Census Bureau). The county covers 466 square miles of land area. The county seat is Hattiesburg.
Hattiesburg, Petal, Glendale, Rawls Springs.
Forrest County, MS is served by the National Weather Service JAN forecast office for warnings, watches, advisories, and decision-support services. The same office produces the Hazardous Weather Outlook, Area Forecast Discussion, and DSS briefing packets you'll see on the BloomWX dashboard for this county.
BloomWX also covers the surrounding counties: Covington County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Stone County, MS.
BloomWX is a free weather operations dashboard for SKYWARN storm spotters, emergency management volunteers, ham radio nets, and anyone in Forrest County, MS who needs the official NWS data without the consumer-app cruft. Data is pulled directly from weather.gov and refreshes every 60 seconds. Sources: National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, USGS Water Data, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Open-Meteo (Air Quality), and the Citizen Weather Observer Program.
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