Mississippi

Storm History: Amite County, Mississippi

213 episodes, 265 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Amite 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
265
Deaths
2
Injuries
10
Damage
$81 million
Episodes
213

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
Tornado9009$5.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind6711$426,000
Hail3700$41,000
Excessive Heat1800
Flash Flood1100$700,000
Drought900
Heavy Snow500
Winter Weather500
Winter Storm400
Tropical Storm400$505,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$74 million
Ice Storm300
Cold/Wind Chill210
Funnel Cloud200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning100
Tropical Depression100
Sleet100

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 Amite County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Amite CountyEvery warning in Amite 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.