Mississippi

Storm History: Sharkey County, Mississippi

221 episodes, 271 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sharkey 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
271
Deaths
39
Injuries
479
Damage
$151 million
Episodes
221

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
Tornado12237477$125 million
Hail4400$218,000
Flash Flood2801$958,000
Thunderstorm Wind2600$1.6 million
Drought1700$6.4 million
Ice Storm1200$850,000
Heavy Snow600$275,000
Heat400
Hurricane (Typhoon)200$16 million
Flood200$153,000
High Wind100$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill100$100,000
Excessive Heat100
Sleet100
Strong Wind100$3,000
Winter Weather100$5,000
Winter Storm110
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill111

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 Sharkey County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Sharkey CountyEvery warning in Sharkey 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.