2004 tornadoes in Mississippi

54 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2004, 44 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 6.

2003 2005 The whole country in 2004

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 2004

February 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
February 5	10:26 AM CST	F2	Simpson	10.0	300	$260,000
February 5	1:20 PM CST	F1	Newton	8.0	200	$30,000
February 5	4:15 PM CST	F1	Lauderdale	1.5	100	$80,000

March 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 5	6:01 PM CST	F0	Holmes	0.2	50			$10,000

April 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	7:43 PM CDT	F0	Claiborne	0.3	50			$1,000
April 29	7:55 PM CDT	F0	Yazoo	0.2	25

May 1 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 1	3:43 PM CDT	F1	Jefferson Davis	9.0	300	$30,000
May 1	4:02 PM CDT	F1	Covington	0.7	75	$30,000
May 1	4:03 PM CDT	F1	Walthall	9.0	100	$70,000
May 1	4:32 PM CDT	F1	Jefferson Davis	6.0	100	$10,000

May 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 29	7:39 PM CDT	F0	Leflore	2.0	50

May 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 30	11:05 PM CDT	F1	Tippah	0.2	75			$100,000

June 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 3	4:15 PM CDT	F0	Tallahatchie	0.3	25

June 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 22	2:00 PM CDT	F0	Hancock	0.1	20

October 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 18	7:40 PM CDT	F0	Clay	1.0	75			$1,000

October 19 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 19	7:13 AM CDT	F0	George	0.1	20			$10,000
October 19	12:50 PM CDT	F0	Lee	0.1	25			$10,000

October 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 23	3:38 PM CDT	F1	Marshall	3.0	75			$30,000
October 23	5:46 PM CDT	F0	Holmes	3.0	40			$2,000

November 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 23	11:31 PM CST	F0	Warren	1.0	75			$1,000
November 23	11:40 PM CST	F3	Jefferson	18.0	600			$300,000

November 24 19 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 24	12:33 AM CST	F0	Hinds	1.0	30			$2,000
November 24	12:35 AM CST	F0	Madison	6.0	40			$2,000
November 24	12:54 AM CST	F2	Lawrence	28.0	200			$1.5 million
November 24	1:15 AM CST	F2	Leake	10.5	400			$300,000
November 24	1:32 AM CST	F1	Lawrence	7.0	75			$30,000
November 24	1:43 AM CST	F1	Leake	3.0	75			$120,000
November 24	1:53 AM CST	F2	Smith	38.0	600		4	$7.0 million
November 24	2:10 AM CST	F0	Stone	0.3	30			$10,000
November 24	2:19 AM CST	F1	Neshoba	4.0	100			$30,000
November 24	2:25 AM CST	F3	Winston	21.0	600	1	2	$2.7 million
November 24	2:40 AM CST	F0	Perry	0.2	30			$10,000
November 24	2:41 AM CST	F1	Lauderdale	12.0	300			$150,000
November 24	2:50 AM CST	F1	Noxubee	7.5	200			$70,000
November 24	2:50 AM CST	F1	Lincoln	3.0	150			$60,000
November 24	3:07 AM CST	F1	Noxubee	5.0	100			$100,000
November 24	3:10 AM CST	F0	Greene	0.3	30			$10,000
November 24	3:25 AM CST	F0	Wayne	0.2	30			$10,000
November 24	5:10 AM CST	F0	Stone	0.2	30			$10,000
November 24	6:00 AM CST	F2	Harrison	1.5	50			$3.0 million

December 7 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 7	1:00 AM CST	F1	Leflore	2.0	70	$10,000
December 7	1:20 AM CST	F2	Claiborne	26.0	400	$550,000
December 7	1:51 AM CST	F1	Montgomery	7.2	150	$260,000
December 7	2:14 AM CST	F2	Chickasaw	1.0	100	$70,000
December 7	2:30 AM CST	F0	Oktibbeha	0.2	40	$10,000
December 7	2:32 AM CST	F1	Monroe	0.8	25	$30,000
December 7	2:34 AM CST	F0	Rankin	0.5	100	$50,000
December 7	2:35 AM CST	F0	Attala	4.0	50	$20,000
December 7	2:35 AM CST	F0	Oktibbeha	1.2	50	$20,000
December 7	2:37 AM CST	F0	Rankin	0.7	100	$10,000
December 7	3:55 AM CST	F2	Lowndes to AL	8.0	200	$200,000

December 9 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 9	4:06 AM CST	F1	Smith	19.0	300	$1.0 million
December 9	5:27 AM CST	F0	Kemper	0.2	50	$10,000
December 9	5:38 AM CST	F0	Kemper	0.2	50	$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.