Mississippi

Storms in Mississippi in 1976

179 events in 42 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Mississippi in 1976, 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 1976 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
179
Deaths
5
Injuries
294
Damage
$52 million
Episodes
42

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 Wind8700
Tornado505294$52 million
Hail4200

Every episode, month by month

January 1976

February 1976

March 1976

April 1976

May 1976

June 1976

July 1976

August 1976

September 1976

More

Every year in MississippiEvery state in 1976Tornadoes in Mississippi in 197619751977

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.