Storm History: Leake County, Mississippi

401 episodes, 610 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Leake 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: 610
Deaths: 7
Injuries: 74
Damage: $230 million
Episodes: 401

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	291	4	70	$83 million
Hail	111	1	2	$3.9 million
Flash Flood	89	0	0	$4.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind	65	0	1	$1.1 million
Drought	17	0	0	$5.2 million
Ice Storm	9	0	0	$845,000
Heavy Snow	7	0	0	$650,000
High Wind	6	1	1	$449,000
Heat	4	0	0	$77,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)	3	1	0	$130 million
Tropical Storm	2	0	0	$75,000
Winter Weather	2	0	0	$13,000
Cold/Wind Chill	1	0	0	$200,000
Excessive Heat	1	0	0
Sleet	1	0	0	$50,000
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 Leake County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Leake County Every warning in Leake 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.