SHOW WARNINGS statement can be used to retrieve the warning produced by the latest query. The error message will be returned along with the query itself:

mysql> SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE MATCH('@@title hello') \G
ERROR 1064 (42000): index test1: syntax error, unexpected TOK_FIELDLIMIT
near '@title hello'

mysql> SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE MATCH('@title -hello') \G
ERROR 1064 (42000): index test1: query is non-computable (single NOT operator)

mysql> SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE MATCH('"test doc"/3') \G
*************************** 1\. row ***************************
        id: 4
    weight: 2500
  group_id: 2
date_added: 1231721236
1 row in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

mysql> SHOW WARNINGS \G
*************************** 1\. row ***************************
  Level: warning
   Code: 1000
Message: quorum threshold too high (words=2, thresh=3); replacing quorum operator
         with AND operator
1 row in set (0.00 sec)