2015 tornadoes in Mississippi

46 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2015, 22 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 11 people and injured 64. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

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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 2015

January 3 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 3	2:05 PM CST	EF0	Lawrence	0.1	50	$1,000
January 3	2:36 PM CST	EF1	Covington	1.9	50	$20,000
January 3	2:39 PM CST	EF1	Covington	1.0	100	$40,000
January 3	3:04 PM CST	EF2	Jasper	8.0	200	$507,000
January 3	3:24 PM CST	EF1	Newton	9.9	100	$30,000
January 3	3:48 PM CST	EF1	Lauderdale	3.6	50	$47,000
January 3	4:31 PM CST	EF1	Lauderdale	2.6	50	$20,000
January 3	4:53 PM CST	EF0	Lowndes	0.3	50	$5,000

April 13 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 13	7:11 PM CDT	EF0	Hinds	6.1	25	$7,000
April 13	7:46 PM CDT	EF1	Scott	0.6	100	$10,000
April 13	8:05 PM CDT	EF0	Leake	1.1	50	$11,000

April 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 18	6:08 PM CDT	EF0	Simpson	0.0	25

April 25 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 25	1:58 AM CDT	EF1	Madison	1.7	75	$20,000
April 25	2:17 AM CDT	EF1	Leake	2.5	300	$35,000
April 25	2:20 AM CDT	EF0	Leake	0.9	50	$10,000
April 25	2:28 AM CDT	EF1	Leake	3.4	500	$200,000
April 25	2:51 AM CDT	EF1	Neshoba	6.5	500	$150,000
April 25	3:10 AM CDT	EF0	Kemper	0.9	50	$10,000

May 25 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 25	8:41 AM CDT	EF0	Monroe	4.1	70	$50,000
May 25	8:51 AM CDT	EF1	Monroe	2.5	150	$150,000
May 25	10:19 AM CDT	EF0	Winston	0.9	25	$20,000

May 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 29	10:40 AM CDT	EF0	Sunflower	0.0	10

August 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 17	4:14 PM CDT	EF0	Covington	2.8	100			$15,000

October 31 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 31	3:27 PM CDT	EF1	Marion	1.6	200	$75,000
October 31	3:46 PM CDT	EF0	Marion	1.1	50	$5,000
October 31	4:24 PM CDT	EF0	Forrest	4.5	100	$24,000
October 31	4:42 PM CDT	EF1	Pearl River	0.5	75

November 17 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 17	9:33 PM CST	EF1	Hinds	1.9	50	$10,000
November 17	11:40 PM CST	EF1	Scott	8.7	440	$83,000
November 17	11:47 PM CST	EF1	Scott	3.0	250	$12,000
November 17	11:55 PM CST	EF1	Scott	3.5	200	$10,000

November 18 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 18	12:05 AM CST	EF0	Leake	0.5	75	$5,000
November 18	12:05 AM CST	EF1	Leake	7.3	400	$50,000
November 18	12:14 AM CST	EF1	Leake	8.1	500	$40,000
November 18	12:21 AM CST	EF1	Leake	7.0	250	$10,000
November 18	12:30 AM CST	EF1	Leake	3.0	300	$13,000
November 18	12:30 AM CST	EF1	Neshoba	0.3	250	$3,000
November 18	12:41 AM CST	EF1	Winston	2.2	300	$8,000
November 18	12:45 AM CST	EF1	Winston	1.7	150	$20,000
November 18	1:06 AM CST	EF0	Pontotoc	9.2	250	$100,000
November 18	3:53 AM CST	EF0	Lowndes	2.2	50	$8,000

December 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 23	2:54 PM CST	EF3	Coahoma	61.6	800	2	28	$2.4 million
December 23	4:10 PM CST	EF4	Holly Springs–Ashland tornado	75.1	1,300	9	36	$11 million
December 23	6:16 PM CST	EF1	Prentiss	3.9	80			$100,000

December 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 25	3:51 PM CST	EF0	Smith	0.7	50			$12,000

December 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 28	5:43 AM CST	EF1	Covington	5.6	100			$100,000

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.