Mississippi

Storms in Mississippi in 1955

18 events in 9 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Mississippi in 1955, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Mississippi in 1955 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Mississippi

The year

Events
18
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$778,000
Episodes
9

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind1000
Tornado701$778,000
Hail100

Every episode, month by month

March 1955

April 1955

May 1955

June 1955

October 1955

November 1955

More

Every year in MississippiEvery state in 1955Tornadoes in Mississippi in 195519541956

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.