Thunderstorm Wind, Rankin
- When
- June 12, 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Rankin County
- Coordinates
- 32.200, -90.000
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 12, 1968
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Harrison
- When
- June 12, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 30.380, -89.270
Thunderstorm Wind,
- When
- June 12, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Coordinates
- 30.380, -89.000
Thunderstorm Wind, Jackson
- When
- June 12, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Coordinates
- 30.380, -88.500
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, June 12, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 12, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 12, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 12, 1968
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 12, 1968
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 12, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, June 12, 1968
- Hail in Tennessee, June 12, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 12, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 12, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 12, 1968
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, June 12, 1968
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 1968Every state in 1968This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 1968
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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10048612, 10048613, 10048614, 10048615.