Mississippi

Storms in Mississippi in 1969

98 events in 27 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Mississippi in 1969, 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 1969 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
98
Deaths
32
Injuries
261
Damage
$2.2 million
Episodes
27

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 Wind4800
Tornado3332261$2.2 million
Hail1700

Every episode, month by month

January 1969

February 1969

March 1969

April 1969

May 1969

June 1969

July 1969

August 1969

November 1969

December 1969

More

Every year in MississippiEvery state in 1969Tornadoes in Mississippi in 196919681970

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.