2017 tornadoes in Mississippi

73 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2017, 94 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 5 people and injured 60.

2016 2018 The whole country in 2017

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 2017

January 2 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 2	1:02 PM CST	EF0	Jefferson	3.9	250	$50,000
January 2	1:14 PM CST	EF1	Claiborne	5.6	200	$40,000
January 2	1:18 PM CST	EF1	Amite	3.1	90
January 2	1:21 PM CST	EF1	Lincoln	6.8	300	$425,000
January 2	1:23 PM CST	EF1	Amite	5.8	150
January 2	1:49 PM CST	EF1	Pike	10.0	75
January 2	2:02 PM CST	EF1	Simpson	9.4	400	$200,000
January 2	2:21 PM CST	EF2	Covington	4.2	300	$100,000
January 2	2:43 PM CST	EF1	Smith	3.9	275	$110,000
January 2	2:51 PM CST	EF0	Pearl River	1.4	50
January 2	2:52 PM CST	EF1	Lamar	8.4	225	$80,000
January 2	3:28 PM CST	EF0	Lauderdale	1.5	75	$20,000

January 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 19	7:53 AM CST	EF2	Smith	19.3	500		1	$2.3 million

January 21 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 21	3:13 AM CST	EF1	Pike	7.5	150
January 21	3:35 AM CST	EF3	Lamar	31.1	900	4	57	$9.5 million
January 21	10:44 PM CST	EF2	Lauderdale	7.3	550		1	$175,000

February 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 7	4:07 PM CST	EF2	Scott	4.8	880			$350,000
February 7	5:23 PM CST	EF1	Jasper	3.1	50			$100,000

March 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 27	1:59 PM CDT	EF0	Alcorn	0.2	50

March 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 29	11:16 PM CDT	EF1	Wilkinson	2.3	200

March 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 30	5:32 AM CDT	EF0	Lamar	1.1	200			$95,000

April 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 2	12:57 AM CDT	EF1	Lincoln	17.5	1,056			$200,000

April 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 18	12:15 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.0	40

April 22 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 22	2:45 PM CDT	EF1	Prentiss	6.5	200			$100,000
April 22	3:20 PM CDT	EF0	Tishomingo to AL	9.0	200			$100,000

April 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	10:31 PM CDT	EF1	Leake	10.6	600			$120,000

April 30 28 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Damage
April 30	6:14 AM CDT	EF2	Adams	3.4	440		$400,000
April 30	7:24 AM CDT	EF1	Jefferson	14.4	440		$300,000
April 30	7:30 AM CDT	EF2	Claiborne	19.9	880		$530,000
April 30	8:01 AM CDT	EF0	Copiah	5.2	100		$50,000
April 30	8:10 AM CDT	EF1	Hinds	6.1	300		$115,000
April 30	8:14 AM CDT	EF1	Warren	2.7	900		$50,000
April 30	8:22 AM CDT	EF1	Hinds	20.3	880		$300,000
April 30	8:23 AM CDT	EF1	Hinds	7.1	1,800		$95,000
April 30	8:23 AM CDT	EF1	Hinds	1.1	150		$70,000
April 30	8:28 AM CDT	EF1	Hinds	2.0	500		$150,000
April 30	8:50 AM CDT	EF1	Madison	6.0	400		$40,000
April 30	8:51 AM CDT	EF1	Yazoo	5.0	1,500		$20,000
April 30	8:54 AM CDT	EF2	Yazoo	21.7	1,700		$2.3 million
April 30	9:06 AM CDT	EF1	Yazoo	6.9	1,003		$130,000
April 30	9:16 AM CDT	EF2	Yazoo	23.4	1,900	1	$3.8 million
April 30	9:38 AM CDT	EF1	Holmes	9.1	400		$40,000
April 30	9:41 AM CDT	EF0	Scott	4.3	100		$50,000
April 30	9:42 AM CDT	EF1	Attala	3.9	600		$60,000
April 30	9:42 AM CDT	EF1	Holmes	3.0	600		$30,000
April 30	9:51 AM CDT	EF0	Carroll	2.6	250		$40,000
April 30	9:58 AM CDT	EF2	Carroll	15.5	1,936		$2.1 million
April 30	10:11 AM CDT	EF1	Montgomery	6.6	970		$4.0 million
April 30	10:13 AM CDT	EF1	Montgomery	5.6	800		$40,000
April 30	10:14 AM CDT	EF1	Montgomery	6.8	650		$75,000
April 30	10:17 AM CDT	EF0	Neshoba	0.3	50		$20,000
April 30	10:18 AM CDT	EF1	Webster	7.4	600		$30,000
April 30	10:26 AM CDT	EF1	Calhoun	2.7	50		$200,000
April 30	11:37 AM CDT	EF1	Lowndes	3.8	440		$375,000

June 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 16	11:14 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	4.0	75

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	8:25 AM CDT	EF0	Harrison	4.2	75

June 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 22	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Marshall	2.8	150

August 30 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 30	1:46 AM CDT	EF0	Harrison	0.1	30
August 30	2:16 AM CDT	EF0	Jackson	1.0	100
August 30	10:04 AM CDT	EF1	Lamar	1.7	100	$150,000
August 30	10:12 AM CDT	EF1	Pearl River	4.6	100
August 30	11:31 AM CDT	EF0	Jackson	2.3	100
August 30	11:41 AM CDT	EF1	Forrest	1.3	160	$200,000
August 30	12:35 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson Davis	1.1	50	$15,000

August 31 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
August 31	11:57 AM CDT	EF0	Benton	0.3	30	$25,000
August 31	1:13 PM CDT	EF0	Lee	1.1	40
August 31	1:23 PM CDT	EF1	Itawamba	2.5	150	$150,000
August 31	1:43 PM CDT	EF0	Prentiss	0.3	30	$50,000

October 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 7	9:28 PM CDT	EF0	Wayne	0.6	200			$25,000

October 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries
October 22	5:05 AM CDT	EF0	Amite	1.4	40
October 22	5:20 AM CDT	EF0	Pike	3.6	25
October 22	12:13 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	3.4	75	1

December 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 20	6:35 AM CST	EF1	Walthall	9.9	80

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 30	7:13 AM CDT	EF1	Warren, LA to MS	9.2	440			$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.