Mississippi

Storms in Mississippi in 2024

1,363 events in 128 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Mississippi in 2024, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Mississippi in 2024 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Mississippi

The year

Events
1,363
Deaths
12
Injuries
61
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
128

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind41900$1.5 million
Heat19500
Excessive Heat16300
Hail10702$1.6 million
Flash Flood10210$5.6 million
Tornado94416$19 million
Drought8600
Strong Wind4000$150,000
Winter Weather3700
Winter Storm35722$540,000
Flood2300$735,000
Cold/Wind Chill1600
Tropical Storm1600$693,000
Lightning900$151,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Storm Surge/Tide600
High Wind500
Wildfire100$20,000
Dense Fog1021$750,000
Funnel Cloud100

Every episode, month by month

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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.