2001 tornadoes in Mississippi

59 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2001, 57 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 12 people and injured 204. 2 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

2000 2002 The whole country in 2001

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 2001

February 16 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 16	12:10 PM CST	F2	Holmes	4.0	500	1	1	$50,000
February 16	3:35 PM CST	F0	Marion	3.0	150			$20,000
February 16	4:10 PM CST	F0	Jones	0.5	150			$1,000

February 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 24	6:35 PM CST	F2	Washington	37.0	440			$1.5 million
February 24	8:20 PM CST	F0	Humphreys	0.5	350			$10,000
February 24	8:37 PM CST	F3	Leflore	22.0	400			$2.3 million
February 24	9:35 PM CST	F3	Calhoun	52.0	1,000	6	73	$31 million

March 12 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
March 12	8:32 AM CST	F1	Marion	8.0	440		$100,000
March 12	9:16 AM CST	F1	Walthall	5.5	440		$10,000
March 12	9:30 AM CST	F1	Marion	6.0	440		$700,000
March 12	9:38 AM CST	F1	Marion	18.0	440	7	$4.5 million
March 12	10:04 AM CST	F1	Forrest	7.0	440	5	$6.0 million
March 12	10:15 AM CST	F0	Pearl River	0.2	20		$30,000
March 12	11:00 AM CST	F0	Harrison	0.1	20		$2,000
March 12	11:10 AM CST	F0	Harrison	0.2	20

May 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 28	11:08 AM CDT	F0	Bolivar	3.0	100
May 28	11:55 AM CDT	F0	Bolivar	1.0	100	$2,000
May 28	12:30 PM CDT	F0	Bolivar	1.0	100	$30,000

June 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 7	10:56 AM CDT	F0	Franklin	0.4	100

June 11 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 11	4:25 AM CDT	F1	Hancock	1.0	40		$50,000
June 11	5:25 AM CDT	F1	Harrison	0.3	70		$100,000
June 11	6:35 AM CDT	F0	Jackson	1.0	30		$10,000
June 11	7:00 AM CDT	F1	George	10.0	75	2	$150,000

June 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	4:50 PM CDT	F0	Jones	0.3	100

August 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 7	12:30 PM CDT	F0	Jackson	0.8	20			$30,000

August 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 13	3:50 PM CDT	F0	Pearl River	0.1	20			$1,000

September 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 13	4:30 AM CDT	F0	Benton	5.0	50			$10,000

October 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 11	3:10 PM CDT	F0	Yazoo	0.5	30			$1,000
October 11	4:00 PM CDT	F0	Attala	1.0	40			$1,000

October 13 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 13	8:39 AM CDT	F0	Rankin	0.2	30
October 13	8:45 AM CDT	F0	Rankin	0.2	30	$10,000
October 13	10:25 AM CDT	F0	Copiah	0.2	30
October 13	10:30 AM CDT	F0	Lincoln	1.0	40	$30,000
October 13	12:55 PM CDT	F0	Marion	0.2	25	$1,000
October 13	1:30 PM CDT	F0	Lamar	0.2	25	$1,000
October 13	1:58 PM CDT	F0	Jones	0.2	25
October 13	2:20 PM CDT	F0	Jones	0.2	25	$30,000
October 13	3:05 PM CDT	F0	Clarke	0.2	30	$1,000
October 13	3:40 PM CDT	F0	Lauderdale	0.3	25	$3,000
October 13	3:59 PM CDT	F1	Lowndes	0.2	30	$80,000

November 24 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 24	1:55 AM CST	F4	Washington	30.3	880		48	$4.1 million
November 24	2:42 AM CST	F1	Coahoma	10.0	400			$130,000
November 24	3:10 AM CST	F2	Quitman	43.5	300	3	33	$7.5 million
November 24	4:10 AM CST	F2	DeSoto	6.0	300		9	$1.9 million
November 24	4:15 AM CST	F3	Humphreys	5.0	400		5	$4.0 million
November 24	4:51 AM CST	F0	Hinds	0.2	50			$1,000
November 24	5:18 AM CST	F0	Hinds	0.3	50
November 24	5:25 AM CST	F4	Madison	11.5	880	2	21	$12 million
November 24	6:25 AM CST	F1	Leake	0.2	50			$1,000
November 24	9:30 AM CST	F0	Oktibbeha	0.1	50
November 24	10:10 AM CST	F1	Noxubee	8.0	50			$400,000
November 24	11:15 AM CST	F0	Clarke	0.5	50			$30,000
November 24	12:02 PM CST	F0	Clarke	0.3	50			$3,000

November 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 26	4:52 PM CST	F1	Grenada	12.0	50			$350,000

December 13 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 13	6:22 PM CST	F0	Hinds	0.2	30	$1,000
December 13	6:30 PM CST	F0	Madison	0.2	25	$1,000
December 13	6:45 PM CST	F0	Rankin	0.1	25	$1,000
December 13	9:50 PM CST	F0	Perry	0.1	20	$10,000

December 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 23	3:10 AM CST	F0	Newton	0.2	30			$1,000

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
October 11	1:25 PM CDT	F0	Warren, LA to MS	0.7	30			$10,000

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.