2018 tornadoes in Mississippi

62 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2018, 65 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2017 2019 The whole country in 2018

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 2018

January 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 22	9:16 AM CST	EF1	Covington	7.3	250		2	$45,000

February 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 7	4:15 AM CST	EF1	Lauderdale	7.9	300			$200,000

February 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 10	4:50 PM CST	EF0	Neshoba	0.0	30			$50,000

March 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 5	7:11 PM CST	EF0	Warren	2.0	50			$20,000

March 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 11	1:37 AM CST	EF1	Yazoo	1.5	200			$65,000
March 11	1:49 AM CST	EF0	Madison	6.1	150			$35,000

March 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 19	4:53 PM CDT	EF0	Tishomingo	0.8	125			$500,000

March 28 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 28	8:03 PM CDT	EF1	Attala	1.9	50	$30,000
March 28	8:28 PM CDT	EF1	Choctaw	8.5	800	$45,000
March 28	8:58 PM CDT	EF0	Hinds	0.8	25	$15,000
March 28	9:12 PM CDT	EF0	Rankin	1.6	50	$10,000

April 6 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 6	8:03 PM CDT	EF0	Rankin	2.6	25	$15,000
April 6	8:12 PM CDT	EF1	Warren	2.8	75	$15,000
April 6	9:27 PM CDT	EF1	Claiborne	1.2	360	$25,000
April 6	9:32 PM CDT	EF1	Claiborne	5.8	880	$200,000
April 6	9:46 PM CDT	EF1	Copiah	2.4	700	$20,000
April 6	11:01 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Davis	4.7	350	$25,000
April 6	11:18 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson Davis	2.9	440	$60,000
April 6	11:33 PM CDT	EF1	Covington	1.7	125	$30,000

April 14 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 14	4:48 AM CDT	EF1	Lafayette	0.8	150		$200,000
April 14	4:49 AM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	0.5	40		$100,000
April 14	7:44 AM CDT	EF1	Rankin	6.2	50		$35,000
April 14	9:23 AM CDT	EF1	Winston	0.8	150		$55,000
April 14	10:07 AM CDT	EF1	Lamar	6.1	200		$15,000
April 14	10:08 AM CDT	EF0	Oktibbeha	2.2	200		$15,000
April 14	10:43 AM CDT	EF2	Lauderdale	8.5	780	2	$500,000
April 14	11:30 AM CDT	EF0	Pearl River	0.2	25
April 14	11:48 AM CDT	EF0	Pearl River	4.6	30
April 14	2:13 PM CDT	EF0	Harrison	0.6	75
April 14	6:07 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	1.6	75
April 14	6:18 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	1.9	50
April 14	6:25 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	2.8	50

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	2:57 PM CDT	EF0	Lincoln	0.7	25			$75,000

August 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 17	5:03 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	1.7	250			$500,000

September 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 5	3:49 PM CDT	EF0	Montgomery	0.1	25			$100

September 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 6	3:09 PM CDT	EF0	Hancock	0.6	30

November 1 21 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 1	2:04 AM CDT	EF1	Adams	5.0	250	$500,000
November 1	2:09 AM CDT	EF2	Adams	1.0	200	$500,000
November 1	2:30 AM CDT	EF1	Claiborne	1.1	200	$50,000
November 1	2:31 AM CDT	EF1	Claiborne	3.5	200	$30,000
November 1	2:39 AM CDT	EF1	Franklin	13.6	400	$40,000
November 1	3:00 AM CDT	EF0	Hinds	0.8	150	$25,000
November 1	3:03 AM CDT	EF1	Yazoo	4.0	560	$50,000
November 1	3:10 AM CDT	EF1	Franklin	3.0	500	$75,000
November 1	3:29 AM CDT	EF0	Copiah	2.2	200	$100,000
November 1	3:29 AM CDT	EF0	Amite	3.1	50
November 1	3:33 AM CDT	EF1	Madison	1.3	300	$15,000
November 1	3:53 AM CDT	EF0	Rankin	2.8	200	$15,000
November 1	4:13 AM CDT	EF0	Calhoun	0.4	75	$300,000
November 1	4:20 AM CDT	EF1	Scott	9.4	550	$15,000
November 1	4:29 AM CDT	EF1	Rankin	4.5	300	$35,000
November 1	5:01 AM CDT	EF1	Smith	4.0	150	$20,000
November 1	5:16 AM CDT	EF0	Pearl River	1.4	65
November 1	5:22 AM CDT	EF0	Winston	2.0	75	$70,000
November 1	5:53 AM CDT	EF1	Harrison	7.2	150
November 1	6:23 AM CDT	EF1	Jackson	4.0	100
November 1	6:40 AM CDT	EF1	Jackson	4.8	100

November 5 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 5	10:58 PM CST	EF0	Pontotoc	0.2	50	$15,000
November 5	10:59 PM CST	EF2	Lee	10.2	200	$3.0 million
November 5	11:19 PM CST	EF1	Itawamba	5.1	300	$500,000

November 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 6	1:24 AM CST	EF0	Oktibbeha	6.6	100			$60,000

December 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 27	10:29 AM CST	EF0	Yazoo	1.3	100			$15,000

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.