Tornado and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, September 1, 1994

Name: Tornado and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, September 1, 1994
Start: 1994-09-01T14:05
End: 1994-09-01T14:55
Location: Mississippi

September 1, 1994 · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $500
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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

1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Choctaw

When: September 1, 2:05 PM CST
Where: Choctaw County, Ackerman
Rating: F0
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Coordinates: 33.347, -89.248 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A small tornado was spotted by the local sheriffs office. They watched the tornado suck up lots of leaves and small limbs from trees and then lift back into the cloud.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lauderdale

When: September 1, 2:55 PM CST
Where: Lauderdale County, Meridian
Property damage: $500
Coordinates: 32.404, -88.662 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Several trees were blown down along Interstate 20, east of Meridian.

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

Every storm in Mississippi in 1994 Every state in 1994 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Mississippi, 1994 Warnings in Mississippi, September 1994

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: 10330783, 10330017.