Mississippi

Storm History: Yazoo County, Mississippi

416 episodes, 674 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Yazoo 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
674
Deaths
26
Injuries
219
Damage
$232 million
Episodes
416

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
Tornado30917215$171 million
Hail13901$1.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind8310$603,000
Flash Flood7723$11 million
Drought1500$8.3 million
Ice Storm1100$1.5 million
Heavy Snow900$550,000
Heat510
Tropical Storm400$517,000
Flood420$1.1 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$35 million
Strong Wind300$61,000
High Wind210$515,000
Winter Storm200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill220
Winter Weather200$13,000
Lightning100$40,000
Cold/Wind Chill100$100,000
Excessive Heat100
Sleet100

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 Yazoo County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Yazoo CountyEvery warning in Yazoo 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.