Tornado, Walthall
- When
- March 5, 11:00 PM CST to 11:20 PM CST
- Where
- Walthall County, Salem to 4 mi of Darbun
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 8 mi
- Path width
- 65 yd
- Injuries
- 5 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $150,000
- Coordinates
- 31.230, -90.180
Tornado in Mississippi, March 5, 1996
Five people sustained minor injuries when their mobile home has demolished. Three other mobile homes were destroyed, 20 houses damaged and numerous trees and power lines downed.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $150,000
- 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 LIX wrote it up.
Five people sustained minor injuries when their mobile home has demolished. Three other mobile homes were destroyed, 20 houses damaged and numerous trees and power lines downed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Arkansas, March 5, 1996
- Tornado in Arkansas, March 5, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, March 5, 1996
- Tornado in Arkansas, March 5, 1996
- Tornado in Arkansas, March 5, 1996
- Tornado in Missouri, March 5, 1996
- Tornado in Missouri, March 5, 1996
- High Wind in Utah, March 5 to 6, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, March 5, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 5, 1996
- Hail in Missouri, March 5, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Utah, March 5 to 6, 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: 5543805.