Mississippi

Storm History: Walthall County, Mississippi

218 episodes, 254 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Walthall 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
254
Deaths
9
Injuries
23
Damage
$385 million
Episodes
218

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
Tornado78722$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind6420$356,000
Hail5400$83,000
Excessive Heat1800
Flash Flood1301$1.1 million
Drought600
Heavy Snow500
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$368 million
Winter Storm300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Weather200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Tropical Depression100
Ice Storm100
Tropical Storm100$500,000

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 Walthall County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Walthall CountyEvery warning in Walthall 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.