Mississippi

Storm History: Tate County, Mississippi

299 episodes, 403 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tate 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
403
Deaths
5
Injuries
17
Damage
$8.8 million
Episodes
299

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
Tornado76016$3.6 million
Excessive Heat7600
Hail6600$292,000
Heat4200
Flash Flood3820$411,000
Drought2400
Winter Storm2300$23,000
Thunderstorm Wind1901$168,000
Winter Weather1100
Cold/Wind Chill630$100,000
Ice Storm500$4.0 million
Flood400$57,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Snow200$100
Lightning200$85,000
Strong Wind200$11,000
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Storm100$10,000
High Wind100$10,000

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 Tate County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tate CountyEvery warning in Tate 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.