Mississippi

Storm History: Webster County, Mississippi

250 episodes, 327 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Webster 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
327
Deaths
4
Injuries
33
Damage
$45 million
Episodes
250

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
Tornado101430$9.7 million
Hail8100$922,000
Flash Flood5901$2.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind3202$328,000
Drought1600$3.9 million
Heavy Snow1200$465,000
Ice Storm800$1.1 million
Winter Weather500$13,000
Heat400
Winter Storm300$32,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200$26 million
Cold/Wind Chill100$250,000
Excessive Heat100
Sleet100
Lightning100$1,000

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 Webster County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Webster CountyEvery warning in Webster 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.