Drought conditions that started late summer continued across southwest and coastal Mississippi through the month of November. By this point in the year, multiple observational sites had only measured annual rainfall amounts of around 25 inches.
Every event with a place to put it; 11 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
Drought conditions that started late summer continued across southwest and coastal Mississippi through the month of November. By this point in the year, multiple observational sites had only measured annual rainfall amounts of around 25 inches. That put the deficit at roughly half of climatological normal. The only except was Jackson County, when a few inches of rain fell in the second half of the month which changed the drought condition there from D3-D4 to D2-D3.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New Orleans, LA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 31, 5:07 PM CST, 6 hours 53 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
11 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the first half of the month and D2-D3 for the second half of the month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
The entire county was in D3-D4 drought for the entire month.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Mississippi in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Mississippi, November 2023
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: 1148281, 1148282, 1148283, 1148284, 1148285, 1148286, 1148287, 1148288, 1148289, 1148290, 1148291.