1,810 first-hand accounts of flood events in Mississippi, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A significant multi-hazard, multi-day event occurred across the Mid-South from April 2, 2025, to April 8, 2025, producing 35 tornadoes, record flooding, and numerous reports of damaging winds and large hail. A large upper-level trough covered the Western U.S. in early April.
Read the full account →The front eventually sagged south back into the Mid-South during the early morning hours of April 5th. Strong low-level moisture transport into the frontal zone resulted in heavy rain and training storms across northern sections of the Mid-South, mainly north of I-40.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms impacted the Mississippi Gulf Coast and adjacent waters on July 1, 2025, as a cold front moved into a hot and humid airmass.
Read the full account →Strong to severe thunderstorms impacted the Mississippi Gulf Coast and adjacent waters on July 1, 2025, as a cold front moved into a hot and humid airmass.
Read the full account →The Mississippi River when above flood stage around the 9th of March and crested between the 21st and 26th. Considerable damage occurred on the Mississippi side of the river. The following is a summary of property damage for each county.
Read the full account →An upper low over the Central Plains moved into the Upper Mississippi Valley during the evening hours of Friday, March 14, 2025. Increasing moisture advection ahead of an approaching cold front lifted dewpoints into the low to mid 60s.
Read the full account →Hurricane Dennis made landfall during the afternoon of July 10th near Navarre Beach Florida as a category 3 Hurricane. The storm moved north-northwest across Southwest Alabama and then into East-Central Mississippi and finally across Northeast Mississippi during the overnight…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dennis made landfall during the afternoon of July 10th near Navarre Beach Florida as a category 3 Hurricane. The storm moved north-northwest across Southwest Alabama and then into East-Central Mississippi and finally across Northeast Mississippi during the overnight…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dennis made landfall during the afternoon of July 10th near Navarre Beach Florida as a category 3 Hurricane. The storm moved north-northwest across Southwest Alabama and then into East-Central Mississippi and finally across Northeast Mississippi during the overnight…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dennis made landfall during the afternoon of July 10th near Navarre Beach Florida as a category 3 Hurricane. The storm moved north-northwest across Southwest Alabama and then into East-Central Mississippi and finally across Northeast Mississippi during the overnight…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dennis made landfall during the afternoon of July 10th near Navarre Beach Florida as a category 3 Hurricane. The storm moved north-northwest across Southwest Alabama and then into East-Central Mississippi and finally across Northeast Mississippi during the overnight…
Read the full account →Hurricane Dennis made landfall during the afternoon of July 10th near Navarre Beach Florida as a category 3 Hurricane. The storm moved north-northwest across Southwest Alabama and then into East-Central Mississippi and finally across Northeast Mississippi during the overnight…
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Arlene made landfall near the Alabama/Florida state line and tracked northward across western Alabama through the evening of the 11th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Katrina had weakened to tropical storm strength when it reached north Mississippi. An electrical transformer was blown down an a house in Oxford (Lafayette County).
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav was the 2nd major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It took shape as a tropical depression on the morning of August 25th just southeast of Haiti, and rapidly strengthened to hurricane status by the morning of August 26th.
Read the full account →Hurricane Gustav was the 2nd major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season. It took shape as a tropical depression on the morning of August 25th just southeast of Haiti, and rapidly strengthened to hurricane status by the morning of August 26th.
Read the full account →Widespread moderate rain fell over much of North Mississippi during the late evening hours of April 24th, 2015 into the early morning hours of April 25th. An isolated heavier band fell across Panola and Lafayette Counties resulting in flash flooding.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall at 2:02 AM, September 16, near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a upper Category 3 hurricane. The western side of Ivan effected a large portion of Eastern Mississippi as the center moved north through Alabama.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall at 2:02 AM, September 16, near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a upper Category 3 hurricane. The western side of Ivan effected a large portion of Eastern Mississippi as the center moved north through Alabama.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall at 2:02 AM, September 16, near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a upper Category 3 hurricane. The western side of Ivan effected a large portion of Eastern Mississippi as the center moved north through Alabama.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall at 2:02 AM, September 16, near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a upper Category 3 hurricane. The western side of Ivan effected a large portion of Eastern Mississippi as the center moved north through Alabama.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall at 2:02 AM, September 16, near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a upper Category 3 hurricane. The western side of Ivan effected a large portion of Eastern Mississippi as the center moved north through Alabama.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall at 2:02 AM, September 16, near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a upper Category 3 hurricane. The western side of Ivan effected a large portion of Eastern Mississippi as the center moved north through Alabama.
Read the full account →Hurricane Ivan made landfall at 2:02 AM, September 16, near Gulf Shores, Alabama as a upper Category 3 hurricane. The western side of Ivan effected a large portion of Eastern Mississippi as the center moved north through Alabama.
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