Mississippi

Storm History: Tunica County, Mississippi

295 episodes, 384 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tunica 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
384
Deaths
3
Injuries
13
Damage
$1.0 billion
Episodes
295

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
Excessive Heat8100
Tornado74113$5.2 million
Heat5400
Hail4100$550,000
Drought3200
Winter Storm2300$23,000
Flash Flood2200$1.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind1500$388,000
Winter Weather1200
Ice Storm800$41,000
Flood720$1.0 billion
Cold/Wind Chill700$75,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Tropical Storm200$20,000
Heavy Snow100
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100$12,000

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 Tunica County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tunica CountyEvery warning in Tunica 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.