Storm History: Hinds County, Mississippi

780 episodes, 1,537 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hinds 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: 1,537
Deaths: 66
Injuries: 628
Damage: $1.0 billion
Episodes: 780

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 Hinds 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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Tornado	649	58	622	$198 million
Hail	303	0	1	$278 million
Flash Flood	298	1	0	$24 million
Thunderstorm Wind	200	0	0	$2.9 million
Drought	18	0	0	$12 million
Strong Wind	11	0	0	$129,000
Heavy Snow	9	1	0	$1.7 million
Ice Storm	8	1	2	$1.2 million
High Wind	7	0	0	$535,000
Flood	6	0	0	$57,000
Heat	6	2	0
Tropical Storm	5	0	0	$198,000
Lightning	3	1	1	$200,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)	3	1	0	$520 million
Winter Weather	3	0	0	$59,000
Sleet	3	0	0	$503,000
Heavy Rain	2	0	2	$55,000
Cold/Wind Chill	1	1	0	$3.0 million
Excessive Heat	1	0	0
Winter Storm	1	0	0

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 Hinds County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Hinds County Every warning in Hinds County since 1986 Every 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.