Mississippi

Storm History: Prentiss County, Mississippi

287 episodes, 396 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Prentiss 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
396
Deaths
3
Injuries
44
Damage
$8.1 million
Episodes
287

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
Tornado97242$5.0 million
Hail7000$331,000
Excessive Heat5700
Flash Flood4900$335,000
Thunderstorm Wind3100$336,000
Heat2710
Drought2000
Winter Storm1900$1.2 million
Winter Weather702
Ice Storm400$760,000
Cold/Wind Chill400$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Tropical Storm200$6,000
Frost/Freeze200
High Wind200$7,000
Flood100$1,000
Heavy Snow100

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 Prentiss County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Prentiss CountyEvery warning in Prentiss 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.