Name: Tropical Storm in Mississippi, September 4 to 5, 2018
Start: 2018-09-04T18:00
End: 2018-09-05T06:00
Location: Mississippi

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
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.

Tropical Storm Gordon was first classified as a Potential Tropical Cyclone as a tropical wave between Cuba and the Bahamas on September 2nd. It became Tropical Storm Gordon over the Florida Keys on the morning of September 3rd. The storm continued to move northwestward and made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border around 1015 pm CDT on September 4th as a tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph. The storm was downgraded to a tropical depression over central Mississippi on the morning of September 5th, and was declared a remnant low near the Arkansas-Missouri border on the evening of the 7th.

Tide levels of 1 to 2.5 feet above normal were reported with minimal if any impacts.

Tropical storm force winds were reported over portions of the coastal waters. A sustained wind of 51 knots (59 mph) and a gust to 64 knots (74 mph) was measured at the Petit Bois CMAN Station in Mississippi Sound. On land, the strongest sustained wind was 33 knots (38 mph) with a gust to 49 knots (56 mph) at Pascagoula Trent Lott International Airport. In Jackson County Mississippi, several mobile homes were damaged by falling trees. Approximately 6,000 people were affected by power outages, and 88 citizens needed to be housed in shelters. No tropical storm force winds were observed in the other coastal counties of Harrison or Hancock.

Event by event

1 tropical storm. Local standard time, as filed.

Tropical Storm, Jackson

When: September 4, 6:00 PM CST to September 5, 6:00 AM CST
Where: Jackson forecast zone
Reported by: ASOS

Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall in Jackson County around 1015 pm CDT, just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border. A 33 knot (38 mph) sustained wind with a gust to 49 knots (56 mph) was measured at Pascagoula Trent Lott Airport. Several trees were reported blown down across the county. Power poles and power lines were knocked down, and 2 mobile homes were damaged by falling trees. Approximately 6000 people were affected by power outages, and 88 people were housed in shelters during the peak of the storm. Tide levels were reported to be 2 feet above normal.

What these are

Tropical Storm: A tropical cyclone with sustained winds of 34 to 63 knots (39 to 73 mph).

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Mississippi in 2018 Every state in 2018 This day in weather history Warnings in Mississippi, September 2018 The 2018 hurricane season

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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 774216.