2016 tornadoes in Mississippi

45 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2016, 20 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 2.

2015 2017 The whole country in 2016

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 2016

January 21 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 21	4:14 PM CST	EF0	Copiah	3.0	50	$17,000
January 21	4:25 PM CST	EF1	Lincoln	5.3	200	$165,000
January 21	5:20 PM CST	EF1	Simpson	3.9	300	$17,000
January 21	5:46 PM CST	EF0	Scott	2.1	75	$9,000
January 21	6:49 PM CST	EF2	Lamar	6.5	530	$65,000

February 2 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
February 2	2:48 PM CST	EF1	Newton	7.1	150	$120,000
February 2	3:19 PM CST	EF2	Lauderdale	21.2	880	$1.5 million
February 2	3:53 PM CST	EF2	Kemper	18.5	300	$270,000
February 2	5:27 PM CST	EF1	Noxubee	6.6	150	$170,000
February 2	6:39 PM CST	EF1	Neshoba	0.7	50	$22,000

February 15 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
February 15	11:00 AM CST	EF0	Hinds	0.5	50		$3,000
February 15	12:10 PM CST	EF2	Copiah	30.3	250		$960,000
February 15	12:15 PM CST	EF1	Leake	1.9	300		$800,000
February 15	12:45 PM CST	EF1	Winston	2.5	200		$45,000
February 15	1:15 PM CST	EF1	Walthall	5.0	250	2
February 15	1:24 PM CST	EF0	Smith	2.1	100		$15,000
February 15	1:43 PM CST	EF1	Smith	2.7	250		$250,000
February 15	1:52 PM CST	EF1	Smith	14.6	350		$608,000

February 23 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Damage
February 23	3:45 PM CST	EF1	Lincoln	0.5	75		$40,000
February 23	3:49 PM CST	EF1	Pearl River	9.5	150
February 23	3:50 PM CST	EF1	Pearl River	5.2	200		$25,000
February 23	4:07 PM CST	EF0	Lamar	0.1	25		$5,000
February 23	4:15 PM CST	EF2	Lamar	5.6	100	1	$105,000
February 23	4:29 PM CST	EF1	Lamar	1.4	75		$10,000
February 23	4:42 PM CST	EF0	Yazoo	1.1	100		$25,000
February 23	4:46 PM CST	EF0	Simpson	0.6	40		$13,000
February 23	5:25 PM CST	EF1	Greene	1.5	75		$100,000
February 23	5:32 PM CST	EF1	Greene	0.0	75		$25,000
February 23	5:45 PM CST	EF1	Greene	1.6	150		$200,000
February 23	6:01 PM CST	EF0	Forrest	3.9	75		$15,000

March 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 10	4:04 PM CST	EF0	Smith	1.2	80			$20,000

March 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 13	10:13 PM CDT	EF0	Bolivar	0.5	50			$40,000

March 31 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 31	7:53 AM CDT	EF1	Lamar	1.4	50			$70,000
March 31	6:18 PM CDT	EF1	Lowndes to AL	7.8	600			$225,000

April 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	3:26 PM CDT	EF0	Monroe	5.2	150			$10,000
April 29	3:41 PM CDT	EF0	Monroe	0.9	50			$10,000

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	6:17 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Davis	0.8	260			$110,000

July 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 22	2:04 PM CDT	EF0	Jones	0.9	100			$45,000

November 29 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 29	3:57 PM CST	EF1	Rankin	23.9	300	$200,000
November 29	5:49 PM CST	EF1	Winston	5.5	170	$180,000
November 29	5:52 PM CST	EF1	Oktibbeha	3.6	150	$45,000
November 29	6:12 PM CST	EF1	Clay	8.9	200	$220,000
November 29	8:12 PM CST	EF1	Lowndes	3.5	100	$50,000

December 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 13	3:19 PM CST	EF0	Hancock	4.3	20

December 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 17	11:45 PM CST	EF1	Calhoun	0.3	75			$80,000

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.