Tornado, Union
- When
- March 18, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.420, -89.030
Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, March 18, 1987
10 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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
10 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Pontotoc
- When
- March 18, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Pontotoc County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.320, -88.850
Hail, Union
- When
- March 18, 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.500, -89.000
Hail, Lee
- When
- March 18, 6:21 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.270, -88.720
Hail, Yalobusha
- When
- March 18, 6:25 PM CST
- Where
- Yalobusha County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.150, -89.670
Hail, Lee
- When
- March 18, 6:44 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.330, -88.570
Hail, Itawamba
- When
- March 18, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Itawamba County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.270, -88.420
Hail, Itawamba
- When
- March 18, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Itawamba County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.370, -88.320
Hail, Prentiss
- When
- March 18, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Prentiss County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.570, -88.570
Hail, Lee
- When
- March 18, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.270, -88.720
Hail, Monroe
- When
- March 18, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Monroe County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.980, -88.500
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 1987Every state in 1987This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 1987Warnings in Mississippi, March 1987
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: 10064288, 10064289, 10064290, 10064291, 10064292, 10064293, 10064294, 10064295, 10064296, 10064297, 10064298.