Mississippi

Storm History: Forrest County, Mississippi

483 episodes, 817 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Forrest 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
817
Deaths
11
Injuries
199
Damage
$916 million
Episodes
483

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.

Open the live radar over Forrest County

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
Tornado2757192$54 million
Hail19910$7.1 million
Flash Flood19914$8.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind9301$1.1 million
Tropical Storm1100$120,000
Drought1100$2.6 million
Heavy Snow600$305,000
Ice Storm400$15,000
High Wind300$1.0 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$840 million
Heat300
Strong Wind300$27,000
Excessive Heat212
Lightning110
Flood100$1,000
Funnel Cloud100
Cold/Wind Chill100$300,000
Winter Storm100

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 Forrest County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Forrest CountyEvery warning in Forrest 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.