Tornado, Claiborne
- When
- March 17, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Claiborne County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.950, -90.850
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 17, 1987
7 tornado, 7 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 4
- Property damage
- $3.3 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 14
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
7 tornado, 7 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Adams
- When
- March 17, 5:02 PM CST
- Where
- Adams County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 31.550, -91.400
Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- March 17, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.720, -91.130
Thunderstorm Wind, Hinds
- When
- March 17, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Hinds County
- Coordinates
- 32.330, -90.170
Tornado, Amite
- When
- March 17, 7:25 PM CST
- Where
- Amite County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 120 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.320, -90.650
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- March 17, 7:27 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 120 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.330, -90.630
Thunderstorm Wind, Walthall
- When
- March 17, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Walthall County
- Coordinates
- 31.070, -90.150
Tornado, Walthall
- When
- March 17, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Walthall County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 73 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.120, -90.020
Thunderstorm Wind, Copiah
- When
- March 17, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Copiah County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 31.870, -90.180
Tornado, Jones
- When
- March 17, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Jones County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9 mi
- Path width
- 73 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.550, -89.250
Thunderstorm Wind, Jones
- When
- March 17, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jones County
- Coordinates
- 31.580, -89.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Hancock
- When
- March 17, 10:40 PM CST
- Where
- Hancock County
- Coordinates
- 30.270, -89.380
Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison
- When
- March 17, 11:05 PM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Coordinates
- 30.500, -89.120
Thunderstorm Wind, George
- When
- March 17, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- George County
- Coordinates
- 30.870, -88.470
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
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: 10064274, 10064275, 10064276, 10064277, 10064278, 10064279, 10064280, 10064281, 10064282, 10064283, 10064284, 10064285, 10064286, 10064287.