Tornado, Amite
- When
- July 21, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Amite County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.200, -91.020
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, July 21, 1986
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $250,000
- 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.
Thunderstorm Wind, Smith
- When
- July 21, 1:15 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Coordinates
- 32.030, -89.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Jasper
- When
- July 21, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County
- Coordinates
- 32.000, -89.130
Thunderstorm Wind, Hinds
- When
- July 21, 4:35 PM CST
- Where
- Hinds County
- Coordinates
- 32.270, -90.430
What these are
- 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.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 21, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 21, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Florida, July 21, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 21, 1986
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 21, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, July 21, 1986
- Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 21, 1986
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 21, 1986
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 21, 1986
- Tornado in California, July 21, 1986
- Hail in Louisiana, July 21, 1986
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 1986Every state in 1986This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 1986Warnings in Mississippi, July 1986
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: 10063154, 10063155, 10063156, 10063157.