Strong Wind in Mississippi
Every strong wind event the National Weather Service has filed in Mississippi, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Non-thunderstorm winds below high wind criteria that nonetheless caused damage or casualties.
The most significant on the map
The most significant strong wind episodes in Mississippi.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 480
- Deaths
- 7
- Injuries
- 6
- Damage
- $7.6 million
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, November 29 to 30, 2010During the evening hours of November 29th and the overnight/early morning period of the 30th, the region was impacted by an outbreak of tornadoes. This outbreak brought 13 tornadoes to the forecast area.
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 4, 2025A line of severe storms pushed across the region and produced damaging wind gusts that downed trees and power lines, and damaged several structures. Ahead of the storms, strong gradient winds also produced damage to a similar degree.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, November 14 to 15, 2006An intense fall cyclone developed over the region and produced an episode of severe weather which included tornadoes. This strong weather system developed as a very strong jet stream, with winds between 160-200 mph, slammed into Oregon and Washington State.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, October 17 to 18, 2012A vigorous, fast-moving, early autumn storm system brought severe weather to portions of the ArkLaMiss region from the evening of October 17th, 2012 into the early morning hours of October 18th.
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Mississippi, August 28 to 31, 2012Tropical Depression Nine formed in the Atlantic, east of the Lesser Antilles, on the morning of August 21, 2012. Twelve hours later, Tropical Depression Nine had strengthened into Tropical Storm Isaac.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, May 3 to 4, 2009Early on the 3rd, clusters of severe storms evolved into a line which produced scattered wind damage as it pushed east along and just north of I-20. An outflow boundary pushed out of this line and provided the focus for the second powerful and significant severe event.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, March 3 to 4, 2008A strong upper level system and evolving surface low moved across the region late on March 3rd. These features combined to bring a potent weather system to the area and a healthy round of severe thunderstorms from late afternoon through around midnight.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 11, 2020A warm, moist airmass was in place across the region ahead of a potent January weather system.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, March 30, 2022A strong weather system interacted with an unstable airmass to bring widespread severe weather to the region. There was copious amounts of wind energy in the atmosphere ahead of the squall line to bring down trees and power lines from gradient winds.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 12 to 13, 2019During the late afternoon of April 13 and into the evening and overnight, a strong spring storm system pushed across the Lower Mississippi Valley region and brought widespread severe weather, a regional tornado outbreak, and flash flooding.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, February 20 to 21, 2014During the afternoon of the 20th and into the early morning hours of the 21st, a large part of the central United States experienced severe weather.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, March 8 to 10, 2011A potent storm system combined with abundant moisture over the ArkLaMiss region to bring nearly 24 hours of showers and thunderstorms, beginning during the day March 8th and continuing through the early morning hours of March 9th.
- Damaging Winds and Strong Wind in Mississippi, October 26, 2019The remnants of Tropical Storm Olga moved across Central Mississippi during the morning of October 26. Some of the stronger thunderstorms near the center of circulation produced wind damage across portions of the area.
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Mississippi, March 3, 2023Strong gradient winds developed late in the evening of March 2nd into the morning of the 3rd before a cold front moved through Mississippi. Wind gusts of 45 to 55 mph were measured by several observations sites, and trees were blown down in scattered locations across the state.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, December 31, 2010A potent storm system brought a prolonged outbreak of severe thunderstorms to the Lower Mississippi Valley region from the afternoon hours of New Years Eve lasting through the morning hours of New Years Day.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 22 to 23, 2020An upper level storm system moved across the region overnight on April 22nd into 23rd. Abundant moisture and wind energy was in place to bring severe thunderstorms to the region. Damaging winds occurred along with some tornadoes.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, February 2 to 3, 2016A spring like weather system took shape on Feb 2 and set the stage for a round of severe storms with tornadoes. A large surface low developed across the Eastern Plains and Midwest with an attendant surface front that extended southward into the ArkLaMiss region.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, February 24, 2011A line of severe thunderstorms tracked from west to east across the ArkLaMiss region on the evening of February 24th. These storms were prolific wind producers, with measured wind gusts over 50 mph common in areas along and north of the I-20 corridor.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 2 to 3, 2008A rare and widespread significant wind event impacted the NWS Jackson, MS forecast area during the evening of Aug 2nd and lasted into the early morning hours of Aug 3rd.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, March 21 to 22, 2012A slow moving storm system combined with abundant moisture to bring nearly 48 hours of rain and thunderstorms to the ArkLaMiss region, beginning on the evening of March 20th and continuing through the afternoon hours of March 22nd.
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Mississippi, March 1 to 3, 2023Ahead of showers and storms, gusty gradient winds downed trees. In one case, a tree fell onto a vehicle resulting in a fatality.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 3, 2015During the afternoon of January 3rd, a strong upper level low was moving through the central Plains and a cold front began to move into the region.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, November 28 to 30, 2016Two separate bouts of severe weather impacted a large portion of the ArkLaMiss region over a two day period in late November. The first event began on the afternoon of Monday, November 28th and ended around midnight on Tuesday, November 29th .
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, September 3 to 5, 2011Tropical Depression 13 formed on the evening of September 1, 2011 about 225 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph. The depression moved very slowly, around 2 mph, across northern portions of the Gulf of Mexico.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, December 20 to 21, 2013A squall line took shape across west-central Louisiana early to mid afternoon on the 21st. The squall line gradually moved to the east with some strong storms and embedded supercells developing in the ArkLaMiss Delta.
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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.