Tornado in Mississippi
Every tornado event the National Weather Service has filed in Mississippi, year by year, with the most significant episodes. A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
The most significant on the map
The most significant tornado 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
- 3,532
- Deaths
- 537
- Injuries
- 7,200
- Damage
- $2.9 billion
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, February 21, 1971
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, March 3, 1966
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, December 5, 1953
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, January 23, 1969
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Mississippi, March 24, 2023In the afternoon and evening of the 24th, clusters of strong to severe storms were stretched from southwest to northeast across southeastern Arkansas as robust instability and very strong wind shear served to produce a volatile severe weather environment.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 25 to 27, 2011A stationary front remained draped across Southern Missouri into Western Kentucky from April 24th, 2011 into April 25th, 2011. A very warm and unstable atmosphere was in place across the Mid-South ahead of the front.
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, February 28, 1987
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, November 21, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, January 10, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 21, 1984
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 28 to 29, 2014A powerful spring storm system brought a multi-day severe weather outbreak across a large portion of the country during the April 27-30 time frame. This outbreak started across the Central Plains on the 27th and slowly migrated eastward over the following two days.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, April 12, 2020An outbreak of severe weather occurred on Easter Sunday, 2020. This was a multifaceted event with a few different waves of activity, each of which brought their own unique hazardous weather to the residents of the region.
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 24, 2010During the midday hours of April 24th, an intense supercell thunderstorm produced a violent, long track tornado, which ripped a path across the center of the NWS Jackson, MS forecast area. This tornado touched down just south of I-20, west of Tallulah, in Madison Parish.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, April 26 to 27, 2011A historic outbreak of tornadoes across the Ark-La-Miss began late on Tuesday, April 26th continuing into the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 27th. The event ramped up again during the early afternoon of April 27th continuing into the early evening.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 26, 1958
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, December 23, 2015Strong surface low pressure tracked from the Plains into the Mississippi River Valley while a strong cold front pushed into the Mid-South on December 23, 2015.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, March 29, 1976
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, March 21, 1952
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 29, 1963
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 24, 2001Forty mobile homes and nineteen houses were damaged or destroyed. A fire station had a severely damaged wall. Some chain link fencing was blown over.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, November 22, 1992
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 19, 1970
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, December 23, 2014During the afternoon of Dec 23, just enough ingredients came together to support numerous severe storms ahead of a cold front. Across the Lower Mississippi River Valley, peak heating contributed to decent instability in the developing warm sector in advance of the front.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 21, 2017Two rounds of severe weather impacted the ArkLaMiss region - one beginning shortly after midnight on the morning of January 21st and ending shortly before daybreak. The round of storms began during the evening hours on the 21st and ended just before midnight.
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 3, 1982
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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.