Tornadoes · United States · Mississippi

2024 tornadoes in Mississippi

77 tornadoes touched down in Mississippi in 2024, 105 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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.

  1. EF065 to 85 mph

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. EF186 to 110 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. EF4166 to 200 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. 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.

  7. 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 2024

January 8 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
January 87:25 PM CSTEF0George2.120
January 87:31 PM CSTEF0George0.220

January 9 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
January 93:24 AM CSTEF1George0.230

March 15 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 153:13 AM CDTEF1Union0.8150$200,000
March 155:04 AM CDTEF1Lowndes2.0200$75,000
March 155:07 AM CDTEF0Lowndes0.675$20,000
March 151:35 PM CDTUnratedHancock0.675

March 25 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 259:08 PM CDTEF1Hinds8.8880$60,000

April 9 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 98:00 PM CDTEF0Warren2.1150$25,000
April 98:23 PM CDTEF1Hinds8.2175$300,000

April 10 10 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 104:35 AM CDTEF0Madison0.7150$25,000
April 1010:15 AM CDTEF1Hancock2.9100
April 1010:15 AM CDTEF1Hancock10.3150
April 1010:17 AM CDTEF1Hancock5.2200
April 1010:23 AM CDTEF1Hancock2.7100
April 1010:28 AM CDTEF1Hancock2.9150$100,000
April 1010:31 AM CDTEF0Hancock2.875
April 1010:40 AM CDTEF0Harrison4.9100
April 1010:44 AM CDTEF1Harrison1.575
April 1011:14 AM CDTEF0Jackson2.225

May 9 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 910:11 PM CDTEF0Hinds4.9105$40,000

May 13 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 133:32 AM CDTEF1Lawrence0.5280$120,000
May 133:37 AM CDTEF1Lawrence0.8230$100,000

June 4 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 44:36 PM CDTEF1Amite4.2200
June 44:48 PM CDTEF1Amite5.4200
June 44:55 PM CDTEF1Amite15.6275

June 5 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 56:43 PM CDTEF1Itawamba to AL3.4300$10,000

July 9 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 96:08 AM CDTEF1Holmes0.785

November 19 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
November 192:08 AM CSTEF1Hinds1.150$15,000

December 27 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
December 277:36 AM CSTEF0Forrest0.660$3,000
December 2712:21 PM CSTEF0Jackson3.325
December 273:01 PM CSTEF1Jones13.0330$10,000
December 274:10 PM CSTEF0Stone1.1200

December 28 44 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
December 282:55 PM CSTEF1Amite3.150$5,000
December 283:13 PM CSTEF3Franklin26.01,5004$1.3 million
December 285:34 PM CSTEF1Lincoln9.9400$25,000
December 285:37 PM CSTEF1Jefferson9.3750$35,000
December 285:42 PM CSTEF1Wilkinson11.450$5,000
December 285:46 PM CSTEF0Wilkinson4.925$2,000
December 285:54 PM CSTEF1Claiborne4.9300$70,000
December 285:55 PM CSTEF1Jefferson11.1400$45,000
December 285:58 PM CSTEF1Warren4.5500$15,000
December 286:00 PM CSTEF0Wilkinson3.675$1,000
December 286:10 PM CSTEF0Warren4.1250$17,000
December 286:19 PM CSTEF1Hinds9.4350$10,000
December 286:24 PM CSTEF1Simpson4.6350$15,000
December 286:25 PM CSTEF0Lincoln2.7315$10,000
December 286:25 PM CSTEF1Hinds23.6570$105,000
December 286:26 PM CSTEF1Lincoln6.8300$30,000
December 286:28 PM CSTEF1Yazoo1.2250$10,000
December 286:36 PM CSTEF1Copiah13.01,500$50,000
December 286:38 PM CSTEF1Copiah2.7500$20,000
December 286:41 PM CSTEF1Amite0.425$3,000
December 286:42 PM CSTEF1Amite8.6100$5,000
December 286:48 PM CSTEF1Pike6.475$10,000
December 286:49 PM CSTEF1Copiah11.91,200$62,000
December 286:58 PM CSTEF1Yazoo7.3800$35,000
December 287:04 PM CSTEF1Rankin37.5880$1.7 million
December 287:15 PM CSTEF1Jefferson Davis0.3200$35,000
December 287:17 PM CSTEF1Simpson10.5800$500,000
December 287:39 PM CSTEF1Smith3.4200$30,000
December 287:42 PM CSTEF0Smith0.675$3,000
December 287:46 PM CSTEF1Smith13.0700$200,000
December 288:09 PM CSTEF0Jasper1.050$2,000
December 288:09 PM CSTEF0Newton2.2100$5,000
December 288:12 PM CSTEF2Jasper9.1900$500,000
December 288:18 PM CSTEF1Newton4.5700$25,000
December 288:28 PM CSTEF0Newton0.5165$5,000
December 288:34 PM CSTEF1Newton2.6650$40,000
December 288:36 PM CSTEF1Jasper11.8500$87,000
December 288:49 PM CSTEF1Oktibbeha2.1300$80,000
December 288:56 PM CSTEF1Clarke0.480$15,000
December 288:59 PM CSTEF0Clay4.6200$40,000
December 289:01 PM CSTEF1Lauderdale9.0630$500,000
December 289:01 PM CSTEF1Lauderdale9.9700$15,000
December 289:03 PM CSTEF1Clarke8.7450$45,000
December 289:33 PM CSTEF2Wayne6.5550

Crossed into Mississippi

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Mississippi. They are counted under the state they began in.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 108:13 AM CDTEF2West Feliciana Parish, LA to MS14.6700$20,000
April 1010:03 AM CDTEF1Saint Tammany Parish, LA to MS9.8250
April 1010:06 AM CDTEF2Saint Tammany Parish, LA to MS7.8300
December 284:49 PM CSTEF1East Carroll Parish, LA to MS17.9300$70,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Mississippi since 1950Warnings in force in MississippiThe 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.