Tornadoes · United States · Mississippi

2006 tornadoes in Mississippi

31 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2006, 17 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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.

  1. F040 to 72 mph

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. F173 to 112 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. F4207 to 260 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 2006

January 1 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
January 13:25 PM CSTF1Marion1.050$100,000

March 9 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 91:00 PM CSTF1Panola1.0200$500,000
March 93:05 PM CSTF0Amite0.125

March 13 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 131:50 PM CSTF0Montgomery1.550
March 132:18 PM CSTF0Webster1.030
March 132:26 PM CSTF0Webster1.030$10,000
March 133:15 PM CSTF0Clay1.030

March 20 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 2012:32 PM CSTF0Covington4.050
March 2012:45 PM CSTF0Jones3.050$20,000
March 203:20 PM CSTF1Jones8.050$100,000
March 204:10 PM CSTF1Lamar3.0501$500,000

April 7 7 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 74:36 PM CDTF0Leflore3.050
April 74:53 PM CDTF0Washington1.050$100,000
April 74:56 PM CDTF0Pontotoc6.030$30,000
April 75:43 PM CDTF0Humphreys1.030
April 75:52 PM CDTF0Leflore1.050
April 77:35 PM CDTF0Chickasaw0.215$10,000
April 79:55 PM CDTF0Sunflower3.050$30,000

April 21 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 2110:36 PM CDTF0Smith1.050$100,000

May 10 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 105:49 PM CDTF2Jefferson7.0440$120,000

October 16 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
October 165:12 PM CDTF0Jefferson Davis1.040
October 167:39 PM CDTF1Holmes4.950$20,000

October 17 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
October 173:39 AM CDTF2Lamar0.850$700,000

October 27 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
October 276:48 AM CDTF1Marion5.0500$700,000
October 277:45 AM CDTF1Lamar2.0250

November 15 6 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
November 152:30 AM CSTF3Lamar13.05006$1.5 million
November 153:31 AM CSTF3Jones15.98501$1.9 million
November 153:40 AM CSTF1Jones0.8150
November 153:50 AM CSTF1Lamar1.070$100,000
November 154:57 AM CSTF1Greene4.5300$750,000
November 156:22 AM CSTF1Jackson0.535$50,000

Crossed into Mississippi

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

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 105:03 PM CDTF0Adams, LA to MS5.050
November 152:50 AM CSTF2Washington Parish, LA to MS22.24401$690,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Mississippi since 1950Warnings in force in MississippiThe 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.