2010 tornadoes in Mississippi

40 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2010, about the average of the record for the state. They killed 4 people and injured 42.

2009 2011 The whole country in 2010

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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 2010

January 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 20	6:01 PM CST	EF0	Madison	1.0	40			$40,000

January 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 21	12:50 AM CST	EF2	Copiah	3.6	500			$500,000

March 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 11	3:05 AM CST	EF1	Scott	5.3	400			$100,000
March 11	3:09 AM CST	EF1	Scott	1.3	250			$50,000

April 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 23	3:48 PM CDT	EF1	Leflore	2.0	50			$50,000

April 24 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 24	8:43 AM CDT	EF1	Smith	10.7	50		$40,000
April 24	9:22 AM CDT	EF2	Jasper	22.9	1,056		$1.3 million
April 24	11:20 AM CDT	EF0	Union	0.1	30		$25,000
April 24	2:09 PM CDT	EF2	Oktibbeha	7.0	800		$650,000
April 24	2:28 PM CDT	EF2	Clay	1.9	300		$80,000
April 24	2:40 PM CDT	EF1	Monroe	6.5	150	1	$350,000
April 24	7:32 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	4.3	100		$450,000

May 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 1	1:34 PM CDT	EF1	Union	10.3	300			$135,000

May 2 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	1:10 AM CDT	EF0	DeSoto	1.1	100			$10,000
May 2	1:42 AM CDT	EF1	Panola	0.1	30			$50,000
May 2	2:48 AM CDT	EF3	Benton to TN	29.6	880	3	9	$1.8 million
May 2	3:27 AM CDT	EF2	Lafayette	1.4	75	1		$250,000

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	7:57 PM CDT	EF0	Jones	3.5	75			$40,000

November 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 23	10:30 AM CST	EF1	Simpson	8.0	150			$250,000
November 23	11:35 AM CST	EF1	Simpson	2.1	75			$200,000

November 29 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
November 29	7:19 PM CST	EF1	Sharkey	3.6	100
November 29	7:25 PM CST	EF0	Issaquena	1.2	50		$85,000
November 29	7:46 PM CST	EF2	Yazoo	11.7	200		$700,000
November 29	8:04 PM CST	EF0	Warren	1.9	25		$100,000
November 29	8:07 PM CST	EF2	Yazoo	7.5	150		$1.3 million
November 29	8:30 PM CST	EF0	Claiborne	0.7	30
November 29	9:09 PM CST	EF0	Hinds	7.3	50		$5,000
November 29	9:25 PM CST	EF1	Claiborne	1.7	40		$30,000
November 29	9:38 PM CST	EF3	Attala	9.6	400	6	$1.1 million
November 29	11:08 PM CST	EF2	Oktibbeha	1.7	200	15	$850,000
November 29	11:26 PM CST	EF1	Clay	1.7	150		$250,000
November 29	11:52 PM CST	EF2	Monroe	0.3	125	11	$250,000

November 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 30	2:44 AM CST	EF2	Smith	11.0	600	$900,000
November 30	2:50 AM CST	EF0	Amite	4.8	25	$5,000
November 30	5:50 AM CST	EF0	Jones	7.0	30	$70,000
November 30	7:40 AM CST	EF0	Hancock	0.1	25	$1,000

December 31 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 31	4:11 PM CST	EF1	Warren	3.6	100	$110,000
December 31	4:44 PM CST	EF2	Hinds	26.2	800	$2.7 million
December 31	5:42 PM CST	EF0	Rankin	1.4	50	$2,000
December 31	8:09 PM CST	EF1	Lincoln	2.1	50	$250,000

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
April 24	11:09 AM CDT	EF4	Yazoo City tornado, Mississippi	149.0	3,080	10	146	$386 million

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.