Hail, Warren
- When
- April 25, 2:44 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.350, -90.880
Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 25, 1980
6 tornado, 4 hail, 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
- 1
- Injuries
- 8
- Property damage
- $7.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 10
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
6 tornado, 4 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Choctaw
- When
- April 25, 2:50 PM CST
- Where
- Choctaw County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 33.230, -89.150
Hail, Hinds
- When
- April 25, 2:58 PM CST
- Where
- Hinds County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.100, -90.300
Tornado, Hinds
- When
- April 25, 3:05 PM CST
- Where
- Hinds County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 70 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.070, -90.270
Tornado, Lowndes
- When
- April 25, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lowndes County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 17.8 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 33.300, -88.600
Tornado, Simpson
- When
- April 25, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Simpson County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 20.3 mi
- Path width
- 900 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 7 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 31.770, -89.980
Tornado, Smith
- When
- April 25, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 21.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 31.880, -89.670
Tornado, Jasper
- When
- April 25, 8:10 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 31.970, -89.320
Hail, Copiah
- When
- April 25, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Copiah County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.870, -90.400
Hail, Hinds
- When
- April 25, 9:05 PM CST
- Where
- Hinds County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.150, -90.080
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Simpson | 1980-04-25 | Direct |
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
More
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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: 10060629, 10060630, 10060631, 10060632, 10060633, 10060634, 10060635, 10060636, 10060637, 10060638.