Campus Alert Archive

Institution

Mississippi State University

MSUMSPublic R1Maroon AlertEverbridge~23,000 students

Cases: 7
Alerts: 15
Verbatim: 27%
Span: 1959–2025

Official alert policy

How MSU says it will alert — when and how Maroon Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

7 cases · 4 of 15 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2025

bomb threat: 2025-01-11Snowed-In Saturday Bomb Threat: MSU Police Sweep Old Main and Barnes & Noble in Just Over an Houremergency notificationverbatim

2024

2023

bomb threat: 2023-08-25Columbus Man's Anonymous Text Empties Four MSU Residence Halls at 6:24 PM -- and Earns 10 Years Maximumemergency notification

2015

threat of violence: 2015-08-27A Freshman's Phoned-In Suicide-and-Homicide Threat Locked Down Mississippi State and Named Carpenter Hall by Buildingemergency notificationverbatim

2005

tornado: 2005-09-25Hurricane Rita's Remnants Dropped an F1 Tornado Directly Onto the MSU Campusemergency notification4 injured

1959

fire: 1959-01-23The Night Old Main Burned and One Student Went Back Inemergency notification1 killed

By incident type

What MSU has alerted about

Bomb Threat · 2 Fire · 1 Hazmat / Gas · 1 Infrastructure · 1 threat of violence · 1 Weather · 1

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