Tornado, Pike
- When
- April 20, 4:15 AM CST
- Where
- Pike County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 15 mi
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Injuries
- 5 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.130, -90.430
Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 20, 1992
15 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 5
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 21
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
15 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Amite
- When
- April 20, 4:30 AM CST
- Where
- Amite County
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.120, -91.020
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- April 20, 5:00 AM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9 mi
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.350, -90.400
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- April 20, 5:04 AM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 440 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.370, -90.300
Thunderstorm Wind, Pike
- When
- April 20, 3:59 AM PST
- Where
- Pike County
- Coordinates
- 31.280, -90.470
Thunderstorm Wind, Hinds
- When
- April 20, 5:30 AM PST
- Where
- Hinds County
- Coordinates
- 32.180, -90.250
Thunderstorm Wind, Lawrence
- When
- April 20, 5:30 AM PST
- Where
- Lawrence County
- Coordinates
- 31.550, -90.220
Tornado, Covington
- When
- April 20, 7:30 AM CST
- Where
- Covington County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 31.730, -89.450
Thunderstorm Wind, Simpson
- When
- April 20, 6:00 AM PST
- Where
- Simpson County
- Coordinates
- 31.800, -90.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Lawrence
- When
- April 20, 6:30 AM PST
- Where
- Lawrence County
- Coordinates
- 31.730, -90.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Simpson
- When
- April 20, 6:45 AM PST
- Where
- Simpson County
- Coordinates
- 31.880, -89.950
Hail, Hancock
- When
- April 20, 8:45 AM CST
- Where
- Hancock County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.580, -89.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Marion
- When
- April 20, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Marion County
- Coordinates
- 31.250, -89.830
Thunderstorm Wind, Jefferson Davis
- When
- April 20, 7:10 AM PST
- Where
- Jefferson Davis County
- Coordinates
- 31.670, -89.970
Thunderstorm Wind, Smith
- When
- April 20, 7:30 AM PST
- Where
- Smith County
- Coordinates
- 31.820, -89.380
Thunderstorm Wind, Jefferson Davis
- When
- April 20, 7:30 AM PST
- Where
- Jefferson Davis County
- Coordinates
- 31.580, -89.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Jasper
- When
- April 20, 7:40 AM PST
- Where
- Jasper County
- Coordinates
- 31.950, -89.270
Thunderstorm Wind, Newton
- When
- April 20, 8:15 AM PST
- Where
- Newton County
- Coordinates
- 32.320, -89.030
Thunderstorm Wind, Lauderdale
- When
- April 20, 8:25 AM PST
- Where
- Lauderdale County
- Coordinates
- 32.400, -88.730
Thunderstorm Wind, Jackson
- When
- April 20, 11:05 AM PST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Coordinates
- 30.370, -88.530
Thunderstorm Wind, Stone
- When
- April 20, 11:42 AM PST
- Where
- Stone County
- Coordinates
- 30.850, -89.030
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.
- 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 Florida, April 20, 1992
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- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, April 20, 1992
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, April 20, 1992
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 20, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, April 20, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 20, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, April 20, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 20, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 20, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, April 20, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, April 20, 1992
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: 10063586, 10156034, 10063587, 10063588, 10063585, 10063589, 10063590, 10063596, 10063591, 10063592, 10063593, 10156035, 10063594, 10063595, 10063597, 10063598, 10063599, 10063600, 10063601, 10063602, 10063603.