AccuWeather's 2026 tornado season forecast for Mississippi is out. See when severe weather is most likely to hit, what to expect this storm season

It's not too early in the year for violent tornadoes. Such was the case 60 years ago in this capital city. Here's what happened.

Their 1986 study concluded that the tornado risk within any 1-degree latitude (about 69 miles wide) by 1-degree longitude (about 53 miles wide in the mid latitudes) grid box is a maximum over central Oklahoma with about a 0.06% yearly risk.

A severe weather threat, including heavy rain, wind gusts up to 60 mph, and possible tornadoes, is forecast for central and southern Mississippi this Valentine's Day weekend.

The National Weather Service has confirmed five tornadoes from an outbreak over the weekend and more storms are possible this week.

The storms could produce damaging gusts, large hail and a few strong tornadoes.

Two tornadoes touched down Sunday morning in cities along the Mississippi Coast, causing minor damage but no reported injuries, officials said. The twisters were confirmed by 10.45 am in Pascagoula and Gautier, both located east of Biloxi and less than an ...

TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — More than two months after a tornado destroyed his home, Brian Lowery still looks through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band. “I still have hope,” Lowery said.

TYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — More than two months after a tornado demolished his Mississippi home, Brian Lowery still sifts through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band. “I still have hope ...

From hundreds of miles above Earth, the scars left by a deadly supercell over Mississippi resolve into two unnervingly straight lines, etched side by side across the landscape. Those twin tracks, carved by tornadoes that formed within minutes of each other ...

Remembering the deadly Candlestick Park tornado