Mississippi

Storm History: Alcorn County, Mississippi

346 episodes, 464 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Alcorn County, Mississippi: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
464
Deaths
9
Injuries
110
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
346

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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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado94593$10 million
Hail9000$257,000
Thunderstorm Wind6000$492,000
Excessive Heat6000
Flash Flood5800$1.1 million
Heat2600
Winter Storm2001$21,000
Drought1900
Winter Weather11315
Flood501$102,000
Cold/Wind Chill500$500,000
Ice Storm410$4.0 million
Heavy Snow300$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning200$65,000
Frost/Freeze200
Strong Wind100$5,000
High Wind100$30,000

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Alcorn County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Alcorn CountyEvery warning in Alcorn County since 1986Every county in Mississippi

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.