Flash Flood in Mississippi
Every flash flood event the National Weather Service has filed in Mississippi, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
The most significant on the map
The most significant flash flood episodes in Mississippi.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 3,538
- Deaths
- 19
- Injuries
- 20
- Damage
- $608 million
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Mississippi, March 24, 2023In the afternoon and evening of the 24th, clusters of strong to severe storms were stretched from southwest to northeast across southeastern Arkansas as robust instability and very strong wind shear served to produce a volatile severe weather environment.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 25 to 27, 2011A stationary front remained draped across Southern Missouri into Western Kentucky from April 24th, 2011 into April 25th, 2011. A very warm and unstable atmosphere was in place across the Mid-South ahead of the front.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 28 to 29, 2014A powerful spring storm system brought a multi-day severe weather outbreak across a large portion of the country during the April 27-30 time frame. This outbreak started across the Central Plains on the 27th and slowly migrated eastward over the following two days.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 12, 2020An outbreak of severe weather occurred on Easter Sunday, 2020. This was a multifaceted event with a few different waves of activity, each of which brought their own unique hazardous weather to the residents of the region.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 21, 2017Two rounds of severe weather impacted the ArkLaMiss region - one beginning shortly after midnight on the morning of January 21st and ending shortly before daybreak. The round of storms began during the evening hours on the 21st and ended just before midnight.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, May 1 to 2, 2010An upper level disturbance slowly approached the Mid-South during the evening of April 30th, 2010 as a cold front became stationary to the west. This pattern remained in place through the evening hours of May 2nd, 2010.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, March 14 to 15, 2025Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across portions of Mississippi in the overnight hours of March 14th. Coverage of severe storms increased into the morning of the 15th before a squall line developed and moved across the area.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, March 24, 2023The first significant event to produce widespread severe weather across the Mid-South for 2023 occurred on March 24, during the afternoon and evening hours. This severe weather episode occurred mainly over portions of the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, February 10, 2013An approaching cold front, an unusually high amount of wind shear, and sufficient instability resulted in an outbreak of severe thunderstorms across portions of the lower Deep South, including a violent tornado that moved through Hattiesburg.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Mississippi, April 27 to 28, 2014A warm front lifted slowly through North Mississippi during the early evening of April 27, 2014. The airmass south of the warm front was very unstable and a couple of supercells developed along the warm front over Northwest Mississippi with damaging winds and large hail.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, June 18 to 19, 2023An upper-level shortwave trough moving east through the Central Plains initiated a few clusters of thunderstorms that spread into Mississippi during the morning of June 18th.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, February 23, 2019A strong storm system moved through the region during the day on the 23rd. Storms developed across the ArkLaMiss and brought damaging winds and hail, which produced some damage across the central portions of Mississippi.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 6, 2005Significant straight line winds caused damage in an area from Anguilla to Nitta Yuma to Delta City. In Anguilla, a home sustained damage. In Nitta Yuma, a church had part of its roof blown off. Additionally, several trees across the area were blown down and uprooted.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 18 to 19, 2020A very unstable airmass was in place across the region as a frontal boundary was stalled across the central portions of the ArkLaMiss region. Severe thunderstorms moved across central and southern portions of the area during the afternoon and evening hours of the 19th.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 6 to 7, 2003To put the entire event into perspective, areas just to the N of Interstate 20 and extending W to E across the entire state, experienced a 125 year rainfall event. Rainfall totals ranged from 7 to 12 inches which all fell in about 18 hours.
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, August 30, 2021Hurricane Ida rapidly intensified overnight on August 28th into the morning of August 29th into strong category 4 Hurricane as it approached the northern Gulf coast. Ida made landfall across southeast Louisiana during the late morning on August 29th.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, November 23 to 24, 2004A mobile home was destroyed as it was moved 20 feet from its foundation. This damaged occurred on Wilcox Road. Also in this general area a small shed was destroyed.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 15, 2011A significant severe weather event and tornado outbreak affected portions of central Mississippi, southeastern Arkansas, and northeastern Louisiana on April 15th. This event evolved slowly and brought multiple rounds of severe storms to the region between 3 am and 9 pm.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Mississippi, March 25 to 26, 2009A round of severe thunderstorms, containing tornadoes and damaging straight line winds, occurred Wednesday night, March 25, into early Thursday morning, March 26.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 9 to 10, 2024A line of severe thunderstorms produced significant wind damage, heavy rain, hail, and a tornado as it crossed from Northeast Louisiana into Mississippi during the evening of April 9th. Subsequent heavy rain and storms continued into the daytime of April 10th.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 18, 2019During the daytime hours of April 18th, a developing storm system helped generate a large line of thunderstorms which then moved across the region. From this, a regional outbreak of tornadoes along with widespread wind damage occurred.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, November 29 to 30, 2010During the evening hours of November 29th and the overnight/early morning period of the 30th, the region was impacted by an outbreak of tornadoes. This outbreak brought 13 tornadoes to the forecast area.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 6 to 7, 2014A cold front moved through the region on April 4th and stalled along the northern Gulf Coast. Over the next several days, moisture increased over the region ahead of a strong upper level system.
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Mississippi, October 10, 2002One woman was killed when she tried to drive her car on a flooded road and slid into a ditch and drowned.Several roads were flooded.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 24 to 25, 2003Penny sized hail covered the ground in and around Raymond.
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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.