Mississippi

Storm History: Wayne County, Mississippi

226 episodes, 295 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wayne 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
295
Deaths
2
Injuries
16
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
226

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
Thunderstorm Wind9108$510,000
Tornado7426$28 million
Hail7000$92,000
Flash Flood3300$1.2 million
Winter Storm600
Lightning402$62,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$1.0 million
Drought300
Sleet200
Heat200
Heavy Snow200
Strong Wind100$5,000
Winter Weather100
Ice Storm100$10,000
Tropical 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 Wayne County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Wayne CountyEvery warning in Wayne 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.