Mississippi

Storm History: Warren County, Mississippi

536 episodes, 827 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Warren 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
827
Deaths
44
Injuries
343
Damage
$1.1 billion
Episodes
536

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.

Open the live radar over Warren County

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
Tornado35440328$62 million
Thunderstorm Wind146011$2.7 million
Hail13002$149 million
Flash Flood12502$5.9 million
Drought1800$709 million
Ice Storm910$1.2 million
Heavy Snow700$1.1 million
Strong Wind700$55,000
High Wind610$516,000
Tropical Storm500$65,000
Flood410$5.3 million
Heat400
Hurricane (Typhoon)310$120 million
Winter Weather300$54,000
Sleet200$200,000
Lightning100$70,000
Cold/Wind Chill100$300,000
Excessive Heat100
Winter Storm100

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 Warren County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Warren CountyEvery warning in Warren 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.