Storm History: Humphreys County, Mississippi

231 episodes, 282 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Humphreys 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: 282
Deaths: 39
Injuries: 468
Damage: $48 million
Episodes: 231

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Tornado	112	38	467	$27 million
Hail	59	0	0	$526,000
Flash Flood	32	0	0	$2.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind	28	0	0	$220,000
Drought	15	0	0	$7.2 million
Ice Storm	10	0	0	$840,000
Heavy Snow	9	0	0	$320,000
Heat	4	0	0
High Wind	2	0	1	$22,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)	2	0	0	$8.7 million
Funnel Cloud	2	0	0
Tropical Storm	1	0	0	$2,000
Cold/Wind Chill	1	0	0	$250,000
Excessive Heat	1	0	0
Flood	1	0	0	$700,000
Sleet	1	0	0
Winter Weather	1	0	0	$20,000
Winter Storm	1	1	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 Humphreys County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Tornadoes in Humphreys County Every warning in Humphreys 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.