Tornado in Mississippi, December 9, 1999

Name: Tornado in Mississippi, December 9, 1999
Start: 1999-12-09T18:36
End: 1999-12-09T18:45
Location: Mississippi

December 9, 1999 · NWS JAN · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Property damage: $200,000
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.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Yazoo

When: December 9, 6:36 PM CST to 6:45 PM CST
Where: Yazoo County, Bentonia to 1 mi NE of Bentonia
Rating: F3
Path length: 6 mi
Path width: 400 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $200,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 32.630, -90.350

This strong tornado blew down or uprooted thousands of trees and destroyed two mobile homes. One person was seriously injured. Several barns and out buildings were also destroyed and several farm implements were damaged. One of the out buildings had steel girders which were anchored into three foot square concrete pads and buried in the ground. Almost all of these girders were pulled out of the ground and thrown at least fifty yards.

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

Every storm in Mississippi in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Mississippi, 1999 Warnings in Mississippi, December 1999

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: 5720567.