Mississippi

Storm History: Greene County, Mississippi

187 episodes, 230 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greene 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
230
Deaths
1
Injuries
32
Damage
$34 million
Episodes
187

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
Hail6400$245,000
Thunderstorm Wind5702$2.0 million
Tornado50130$16 million
Flash Flood3200$679,000
Winter Storm600
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$15 million
Tropical Storm400$50,000
Drought300
Heat200
Lightning200$70,000
Heavy Snow200
Sleet100
Tropical Depression100
Winter Weather100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Greene County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Greene CountyEvery warning in Greene 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.