Greene County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Greene County: 1.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 to 2025.

Every large fire

1. Large fires mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program since 1984: 1,000 acres or more in the West, 500 or more in the East. Prescribed burns are excluded. Acres here are the part of each perimeter inside this place.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), 1984 to 2026.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

River crests

River gauges

1. Crests are the highest and the recent crests the National Weather Service lists for each river gauge in the county that has a flood stage, not every flood. Flood categories use each gauge's current flood stages; crests from before levees, dams or channel changes may not be comparable. Crests measured on an old datum are left out of the rankings.

NOAA National Water Prediction Service gauge records, retrieved October 30, 2026.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the county boundary (or inside the county).
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Sep 25, 1998Hurricane (Typhoon), Greene$15.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Please see the narrative on Hurricane Georges under Alabama, Southwest, September 25-29, 1998.

2. Apr 15, 2011Tornado$11.1 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The National Weather Service aerial survey revealed a continuous long track tornado from just west of Leakesville, Mississippi to Deer Park, Alabama. The tornado touched down west of Leakesville south of Highway 57. It crossed the highway, strengthened to EF-3 intensity, and then turned east toward the city of Leakesville paralleling Highway 57. The tornado damaged 98 homes: 47 with minor damage, 28 with major damage, and 23 homes completely destroyed. 14 businesses were completely destroyed. One fatality occurred in a destroyed mobile home. In Mississippi, the tornado did an estimated 11.1 million dollars worth of property damage to homes and businesses. The tornado continued…

3. Jun 5, 1998Thunderstorm Wind$1.4 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   A line of severe thunderstorms moved across the county from west to east. The storms entered the county around 1020 pm and moved out of the county around 1100 pm. Trees and power lines were blown down throughout the county. Many trees were blown on homes. Four homes, six mobile homes and one business were completely destroyed. Eighteen homes, seven mobile homes and two businesses had major damage and twenty homes, four mobile homes and one business had minor damage. No injuries were reported.

4. Nov 15, 2006Tornado$750,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The tornado first touched down near Avera Baptist Church on Pleasant Valley Road. This was where most of the damage was observed. The front part of the church roof was torn off. The tornado then moved east northeast damaging trees and causing roof damage along Pleasant Valley Road. The tornado crossed State Highway 63 causing roof damage to a few homes. The tornado continued east northeast over open countryside downing trees along its path. The tornado lifted back into the clouds near Indian Hill Road.

5. Dec 27, 2018Flash Flood$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Extensive flash flooding occurred in extreme northwest Greene County,north of Highway 42 and west of Highway 63. 2 roads were destroyed, 2 suffered major damage, and 1 road had minor damage. 9 homes suffered flood damage, 5 of which had major flooding. Most of the homes that were flooded were in the Lovewell and Union Road areas. 7 water rescues occurred on Union Road.||The cost of damage numbers are very rough estimates as more detailed information was not available.

6. Apr 4, 2011Tornado$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The tornado damage was found to be along a path extending from approximately 9 miles northwest of Neely, Mississippi to approximately 13 miles south-southwest of State Line Mississippi. The tornado primarily snapped or uprootted thousands of pine trees along a 100 yard wide path, producing minor to moderate damage to the roofs of several homes and a church. One metal barn was destroyed near Avera as the tornado moved through.

7. Feb 19, 1996Tornado$150,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   NUMEROUS TREES WERE TOPPLED AND SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES WERE DAMAGED BY A TORNADO THAT FIRST TOUCHED DOWN IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF GREENE COUNTY. THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN ABOUT SIX MILES EAST OF RICHTON ON MS HWY 42 AT ABOUT 220 PM CDT. THE TORNADO THEN SKIPPED ALONG THE GROUND TO THE NORTHEAST AND MOVED INTO WAYNE COUNTY ALONG MS HWY 63. NUMEROUS TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ALONG THE PATH OF THE TORNADO AND SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES WERE DAMAGED. FOUR PEOPLE IN ONE OF THE MOBILE HOMES WERE INJURED. THE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND FOR ABOUT 5 MILES IN GREENE COUNTY.

8. Apr 8, 2002Thunderstorm Wind$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Numerous trees were blown down between Mclain and Neely as a line of thunderstorms moved through. Several manufactured homes suffered damage from the high winds and also from trees falling on the homes. Several of the trees also fell on vehicles. No injuries were reported.

9. Feb 23, 2016Tornado$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   The storm survey team found a third tornado touchdown in a heavily wooded area near the Greene/Wayne county line. Numerous large diameter (greater than 2 feet) hardwood and pine trees were either snapped near the base of the trunk or |uprooted. Significant damage occurred to a log cabin built in 1909 just inside the Wayne County line...with window panes blown out and large portions of the roof destroyed. A detached outbuilding...built roughly at the same time...was destroyed by a large tree falling on its north side. The tornado continued affecting mostly wooded areas before lifting just to the northeast of Woulard Bend River Road.

10. Feb 23, 2016Tornado$100,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    The tornado initially touched down along MS-63 southeast of the community of Avera. A homestead was affected as it moved northeast. At the homestead...Metal roofing material from a barn was lofted into an adjacent tree. A trailer was also|overturned...with a motor vehicle moved from its initial position. Some minor structural damage to the barn was also noted. Numerous (mostly) pine trees were either blown down or snapped as the storm headed into a less populated area of the county. The tornado lifted just east-southeast of Avera.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

105°F6 times, most recently Aug 14, 2007

All-time low

10°F2 times, most recently Feb 5, 1996

Warmest night

80°F4 times, most recently Aug 15, 2023

Coldest day

28°F2 times, most recently Jan 22, 2025

Wettest day

8.97 inMay 4, 2009

Snowiest day

5.5 inMar 13, 1993

Hottest year

2023mean 68.5°F

Coldest year

1993mean 63.3°F

Wettest year

200985.90 in

Driest year

200041.66 in

Station Beaumont Expstation (USC00220585), 172 ft elevation, 17.3 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1991 to October 21, 2026; 97.6% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

Neighbouring counties

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USC00220585.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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