MS Tornado Count

Final Tornado Count for Mississippi ranging from Jan 1, to Dec 31, 2008 (Previous Record was 99 set in 2005)

It is important to note that much more detailed surveys of damage are conducted now than in past years, and thus many more tornadoes are discovered today that would have went unreported as recently as 10 years ago. Therefore, direct comparisons of the numbers of tornadoes now versus years in the 20th century are not possible, and it is quite plausible that a number of very active years in the 1960s and 1970s would have had more tornadoes than 2008 had damage surveys been conducted in the same way then as they are today.

Tornadoes by EF Scale

Tornadoes by Month

Tornadoes by NWS Forecast Area