Mississippi

Storm History: Lee County, Mississippi

525 episodes, 881 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lee 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
881
Deaths
10
Injuries
109
Damage
$139 million
Episodes
525

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
Hail26200$1.8 million
Tornado1967100$135 million
Flash Flood14201$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind10203$774,000
Excessive Heat6100
Heat3430
Drought2300
Winter Storm1600$42,000
Strong Wind900$41,000
Winter Weather800
Flood600$13,000
High Wind400$36,000
Cold/Wind Chill400$25,000
Lightning305$81,000
Ice Storm300$51,000
Tropical Storm300$50,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Snow100
Wildfire100$10,000

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 Lee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lee CountyEvery warning in Lee 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.