Mississippi

Storm History: Stone County, Mississippi

181 episodes, 212 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stone 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
212
Deaths
1
Injuries
19
Damage
$277 million
Episodes
181

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
Thunderstorm Wind6407$531,000
Flash Flood5100$308,000
Tornado3715$715,000
Hail3700$108,000
Lightning507$75,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$275 million
Winter Storm300
Heat200
Tropical Storm200
Drought200
Heavy Snow200
Dense Fog100
Tropical Depression100
Winter Weather100

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 Stone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Stone CountyEvery warning in Stone 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.