Mississippi

Storm History: Quitman County, Mississippi

225 episodes, 293 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Quitman 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
293
Deaths
2
Injuries
26
Damage
$35 million
Episodes
225

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
Excessive Heat8000
Heat5600
Tornado41224$32 million
Drought3400
Hail2600$123,000
Winter Storm1600$21,000
Thunderstorm Wind800$2,000
Winter Weather800
Flash Flood702$2.8 million
Ice Storm500$210,000
Cold/Wind Chill500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Snow100
Flood100$1,000
High Wind100$10,000
Strong Wind100$1,000

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 Quitman County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Quitman CountyEvery warning in Quitman 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.