Mississippi

Storm History: Harrison County, Mississippi

398 episodes, 633 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Harrison 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
633
Deaths
10
Injuries
90
Damage
$69 million
Episodes
398

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 Harrison 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
Tornado187784$66 million
Thunderstorm Wind13205$723,000
Hail10910$18,000
Flash Flood8300$1.1 million
Excessive Heat4400
Drought1500
Lightning1421$196,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)1100$750,000
Funnel Cloud1000
Flood600$100,000
Waterspout500
Tropical Storm500$40,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Heavy Rain300
Storm Surge/Tide200$250,000
Heavy Snow200
Winter Weather100

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 Harrison County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Harrison CountyEvery warning in Harrison 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.