Tornado, Perry
- When
- March 18, 3:30 PM CST to 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Perry County, Runnelstown to 1 mi N of Good Hope
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 12 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 31.400, -89.130
Tornado in Mississippi, March 18, 1996
A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST NORTHWEST OF RUNNELSTOWN THEN MOVED ACROSS STATE HWY 29 NORTHEAST OF RUNNELSTOWN. THE TORNADO CONTINUED SKIPPING ALONG THE GROUND AND MOVED EAST NORTHEAST AND CROSSED STATE HWY 15 JUST NORTH OF GOOD HOPE.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MOB wrote it up.
A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST NORTHWEST OF RUNNELSTOWN THEN MOVED ACROSS STATE HWY 29 NORTHEAST OF RUNNELSTOWN. THE TORNADO CONTINUED SKIPPING ALONG THE GROUND AND MOVED EAST NORTHEAST AND CROSSED STATE HWY 15 JUST NORTH OF GOOD HOPE. THE TORNADO THEN MOVED OUT OF PERRY COUNTY INTO WAYNE COUNTY. THE TORNADO SKIPPED ALONG THE GROUND FOR ABOUT TWELVE MILES IN PERRY COUNTY. MOST OF THE DAMAGE WAS TO TREES AND POWER LINES AS VERY FEW RESIDENCES ARE LOCATED WHERE THE TORNADO MOVED.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Hail in Mississippi, March 18, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, March 18, 1996
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- Hail in Mississippi, March 18, 1996
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- High Wind in Louisiana, March 18 to 19, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, March 18, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, March 18, 1996
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 1996Warnings in Mississippi, March 1996
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: 5552282.