1999 tornadoes in Mississippi

43 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 1999, 15 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 36.

1998 2000 The whole country in 1999

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Mississippi in 1999

January 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 8	5:15 PM CST	F0	Humphreys	1.0	50

January 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 17	6:45 PM CST	F0	Marshall	0.5	50		2	$50,000

January 21 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 21	3:10 PM CST	F1	Bolivar	2.0	100	$30,000
January 21	3:16 PM CST	F1	Bolivar	2.0	0	$30,000
January 21	9:34 PM CST	F0	Sunflower	15.5	50
January 21	10:33 PM CST	F1	Washington	3.0	50	$20,000
January 21	10:40 PM CST	F0	Washington	1.0	50
January 21	10:45 PM CST	F0	Humphreys	3.0	50
January 21	10:45 PM CST	F0	Panola	8.0	0	$10,000
January 21	10:59 PM CST	F0	Tate	7.0	0
January 21	11:02 PM CST	F2	Sunflower	15.0	100	$100,000
January 21	11:15 PM CST	F0	Leflore	2.0	700
January 21	11:15 PM CST	F0	Sunflower	15.0	100

January 22 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 22	5:10 AM CST	F0	DeSoto	2.0	0	$50,000
January 22	9:25 AM CST	F0	Jefferson	1.0	50	$3,000
January 22	9:45 AM CST	F0	Claiborne	1.0	50	$3,000
January 22	10:15 AM CST	F0	Hinds	1.0	50	$3,000
January 22	10:20 AM CST	F0	Holmes	1.0	50	$3,000
January 22	10:58 AM CST	F0	Hinds	1.0	50
January 22	12:35 PM CST	F1	Alcorn	5.0	50	$70,000
January 22	2:32 PM CST	F0	Carroll	1.0	50
January 22	2:40 PM CST	F0	Warren	4.0	50	$3,000
January 22	3:00 PM CST	F0	Holmes	1.0	50
January 22	3:15 PM CST	F0	Prentiss	0.2	20	$10,000
January 22	5:10 PM CST	F0	Lee	0.1	10
January 22	5:15 PM CST	F0	Pike	0.1	20	$10,000
January 22	5:20 PM CST	F0	Prentiss	0.1	10
January 22	5:45 PM CST	F0	Lawrence	1.0	0	$10,000

February 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 27	3:25 PM CST	F3	Lawrence	17.0	440			$200,000
February 27	5:50 PM CST	F0	Lawrence	1.0	50			$30,000

March 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 9	12:18 AM CST	F0	Pike	0.1	10
March 9	12:20 AM CST	F0	Pike	0.1	10

March 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 13	5:53 PM CST	F0	Jackson	0.1	10

April 14 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 14	6:22 PM CDT	F0	Sharkey	1.0	50
April 14	7:40 PM CDT	F0	Holmes	1.0	50			$2,000
April 14	10:52 PM CDT	F3	Covington	25.5	880	1	33	$6.8 million
April 14	11:58 PM CDT	F0	Forrest	1.0	50

May 5 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 5	7:00 PM CDT	F0	Yazoo	1.0	40
May 5	7:20 PM CDT	F0	Humphreys	1.0	40	$2,000
May 5	7:20 PM CDT	F1	Leflore	1.0	50	$10,000
May 5	8:45 PM CDT	F0	Webster	1.0	40

May 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 30	12:09 PM CDT	F0	Pearl River	0.5	30

December 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 9	6:36 PM CST	F3	Yazoo	6.0	400		1	$200,000

Crossed into Mississippi

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Mississippi. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 21	10:30 PM CST	F1	Madison Parish, LA to MS	16.0	50			$210,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Mississippi since 1950 Warnings in force in Mississippi The live radar over Mississippi

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.