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The chance of earthquake damage in Perkinston is about the same as Mississippi average and is much lower than the national average. The risk of tornado damage in Perkinston is much lower than Mississippi average and is higher than the national average.

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Earthquake Index, #60

Perkinston, MS	0.08
Mississippi	0.05
U.S.	1.81

The earthquake index value is calculated based on historical earthquake events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the earthquake level in a region. A higher earthquake index value means a higher chance of an earthquake.

Volcano Index, #1

Perkinston, MS	0.0000
Mississippi	0.0000
U.S.	0.0023

The volcano index value is calculated based on the currently known volcanoes using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the possibility of a region being affected by a possible volcano eruption. A higher volcano index value means a higher chance of being affected.

Tornado Index, #411

Perkinston, MS	199.64
Mississippi	280.40
U.S.	136.45

The tornado index value is calculated based on historical tornado events data using USA.com algorithms. It is an indicator of the tornado level in a region. A higher tornado index value means a higher chance of tornado events.

Other Weather Extremes Events

A total of 2,072 other weather extremes events within 50 miles of Perkinston, MS were recorded from 1950 to 2010. The following is a break down of these events:

Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count	Type	Count
Avalanche:	0	Blizzard:	0	Cold:	0	Dense Fog:	0	Drought:	0
Dust Storm:	0	Flood:	226	Hail:	593	Heat:	0	Heavy Snow:	0
High Surf:	0	Hurricane:	0	Ice Storm:	0	Landslide:	0	Strong Wind:	0
Thunderstorm Winds:	1,096	Tropical Storm:	0	Wildfire:	0	Winter Storm:	0	Winter Weather:	0
Other:	157

Volcanos Nearby

No volcano is found in or near Perkinston, MS.

Historical Earthquake Events

No historical earthquake events that had recorded magnitudes of 3.5 or above found in or near Perkinston, MS.

No historical earthquake events found in or near Perkinston, MS.

Historical Tornado Events

A total of 70 historical tornado events that had recorded magnitude of 2 or above found in or near Perkinston, MS.

Distance (miles)	Date	Magnitude	Start Lat/Log	End Lat/Log	Length	Width	Fatalities	Injuries	Property Damage	Crop Damage	Affected County
8.3	1968-11-03	2	30°48'N / 89°19'W	30°48'N / 88°55'W	23.70 Miles	183 Yards	0	3	25K	0	Stone
11.8	1953-04-04	2	30°51'N / 89°08'W				0	0	25K	0	Stone
15.1	1972-05-07	2	30°28'N / 89°03'W		0.80 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Harrison
15.1	1994-04-12	2	30°28'N / 89°03'W		2.00 Miles	100 Yards	2	15	5.0M	0	Harrison
		Brief Description: Twenty mobile homes were totally destroyed and four brick homes were partially destroyed. At least four businesses were damaged. The two deaths and the fifteen injuries all occurred in mobile homes. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Damage was estimated at near one million dollars. F57M M08M
17.2	1985-09-23	2	30°26'N / 89°05'W		1.00 Mile	100 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harrison
17.2	2004-11-24	2	30°26'N / 89°05'W	30°26'N / 89°05'W	1.50 Miles	50 Yards	0	0	3.0M	0	Harrison
		Brief Description: A tornado traveled east to west on path along Dedeaux Road between Highway 49 and Three Rivers Road in the Orange Grove community. Most of the damage was rated a F1 intensity by a NWS ground survey, however there were areas of F2 damage. A large church under-construction was heavily damaged or destroyed. Three homes and five businesses received major damage while twenty homes had minor damage. Early estimates were that damage would approach 3 million dollars.
17.2	1980-05-19	3	30°23'N / 89°11'W	30°29'N / 89°03'W	10.60 Miles	800 Yards	0	4	2.5M	0	Harrison
18.1	1980-05-19	2	30°29'N / 88°53'W	30°32'N / 88°51'W	4.30 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Jackson
18.2	1980-04-13	3	30°22'N / 89°06'W	30°30'N / 88°53'W	15.90 Miles	400 Yards	0	25	25.0M	0	Harrison
18.9	1980-05-19	2	30°27'N / 88°55'W	30°29'N / 88°53'W	3.60 Miles	200 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harrison
19.0	1980-05-16	3	30°22'N / 89°09'W	30°27'N / 88°59'W	11.50 Miles	800 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harrison
20.6	1967-10-30	3	30°23'N / 89°05'W		2.00 Miles	400 Yards	4	17	25.0M	0	Harrison
21.8	1968-11-03	3	30°22'N / 89°05'W		2.00 Miles	123 Yards	0	5	0K	0	Harrison
22.0	1969-05-08	2	30°53'N / 89°23'W		2.00 Miles	30 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Pearl River
22.7	1988-03-03	2	30°24'N / 88°54'W		1.20 Miles	30 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harrison
23.1	1958-02-26	2	30°25'N / 88°52'W	30°25'N / 88°51'W	1.30 Miles	30 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Harrison
24.1	1987-11-16	2	30°31'N / 89°29'W	30°32'N / 89°26'W	3.00 Miles	73 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Hancock
24.4	1968-11-03	2	30°48'N / 89°39'W	30°48'N / 89°19'W	19.80 Miles	180 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Pearl River
24.7	1972-05-07	2	30°21'N / 89°15'W		1.20 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Harrison
24.7	1971-05-08	2	30°25'N / 88°49'W				0	0	25K	0	Jackson
25.0	1972-05-07	2	30°20'N / 89°18'W	30°23'N / 89°16'W	4.30 Miles	23 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Harrison
25.2	1966-04-27	2	30°33'N / 88°42'W				0	1	25K	0	Jackson
26.0	1982-04-20	2	30°18'N / 89°19'W	30°21'N / 89°09'W	13.00 Miles	133 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harrison
26.5	1970-02-01	2	30°19'N / 89°14'W		2.00 Miles	33 Yards	0	3	0K	0	Harrison
26.9	1985-05-21	2	30°23'N / 88°49'W	30°25'N / 88°45'W	3.50 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Jackson
27.2	1977-09-05	2	30°19'N / 89°16'W		0.10 Mile	77 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Harrison
27.2	1968-11-03	2	31°00'N / 89°22'W		2.00 Miles	50 Yards	0	5	0K	0	Pearl River
27.5	1958-02-26	2	30°25'N / 88°51'W	30°39'N / 88°29'W	27.10 Miles	30 Yards	0	1	25K	0	Jackson
28.3	1973-04-07	2	30°28'N / 89°30'W				0	0	25K	0	Hancock
28.3	1972-05-07	2	30°51'N / 89°32'W	30°54'N / 89°30'W	4.30 Miles	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Pearl River
28.4	1972-05-07	2	30°18'N / 89°20'W	30°20'N / 89°18'W	3.30 Miles	23 Yards	0	1	25K	0	Hancock
30.0	1976-03-27	2	30°54'N / 89°37'W	30°59'N / 89°23'W	15.00 Miles	440 Yards	0	1	25K	0	Pearl River
30.0	1973-05-26	2	30°42'N / 89°36'W				0	4	25K	0	Pearl River
30.3	1958-02-26	2	30°59'N / 89°27'W	31°03'N / 89°24'W	5.70 Miles	50 Yards	0	5	250K	0	Lamar
30.4	1977-05-02	2	30°17'N / 89°24'W	30°20'N / 89°20'W	5.40 Miles	20 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Hancock
30.5	1971-02-12	2	30°44'N / 88°47'W	30°59'N / 88°28'W	25.50 Miles	33 Yards	0	2	250K	0	George
30.6	1958-02-26	2	30°48'N / 89°39'W	30°59'N / 89°27'W	17.40 Miles	50 Yards	0	4	250K	0	Pearl River
30.6	1996-02-19	2	30°49'N / 89°40'W	31°01'N / 89°24'W	23.00 Miles	430 Yards	0	10	700K	0	Pearl River
		Brief Description: A strong tornado touched down just northwest of the White Sand community. The most significant damage occurred in the initial 2.2 miles just to the north of the White Sand community where ten people were injured; five seriously, requiring hospitalization. The most serious was a woman who suffered a broken back, broken ribs and a punctured lung. The tornado continued on the ground continuously to just north of Poplarville, then intermittently to near Hillsdale. The county suffered considerable property damage with five houses destroyed, 10 had major damage and 14 minor damage. Nine mobile homes were destroyed, 3 sustained major damage and 5 minor damage. Numerous barns and other buildings were damaged. Several farm animals were killed. Large areas of 8 to 12 inch diameter trees were downed. The tornado path was surveyed by National Weather Service employees.
30.9	1980-05-19	3	30°14'N / 89°27'W	30°23'N / 89°19'W	13.10 Miles	800 Yards	0	8	25.0M	0	Hancock
31.2	1989-11-22	2	31°03'N / 89°24'W		2.50 Miles	400 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Lamar
31.4	1982-04-20	2	30°16'N / 89°23'W	30°18'N / 89°19'W	5.00 Miles	133 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Hancock
32.0	1972-03-02	2	30°18'N / 89°26'W	30°18'N / 89°22'W	4.10 Miles	200 Yards	0	2	250K	0	Hancock
32.2	1980-05-19	3	30°54'N / 88°39'W	30°57'N / 88°37'W	4.30 Miles	150 Yards	0	0	250K	0	George
33.0	1973-04-07	2	30°54'N / 88°36'W				0	0	3K	0	George
33.2	1964-10-03	2	30°48'N / 89°39'W	30°50'N / 89°37'W	3.30 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	0K	0	Pearl River
33.6	1980-05-19	2	30°50'N / 89°38'W		0.30 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Pearl River
33.9	1967-05-02	2	30°54'N / 88°35'W				0	0	0K	0	George
34.4	1981-02-10	2	30°31'N / 88°33'W		0.50 Mile	50 Yards	0	2	250K	0	Jackson
36.4	1980-04-13	2	30°14'N / 89°37'W	30°22'N / 89°25'W	15.10 Miles	300 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Hancock
36.5	1972-11-13	2	31°08'N / 89°25'W		0.80 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Lamar
37.3	1971-02-12	2	30°57'N / 88°35'W	31°00'N / 88°33'W	4.30 Miles	33 Yards	0	1	25K	0	George
37.6	1975-01-10	2	30°30'N / 88°30'W		0.10 Mile	70 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Jackson
37.6	1987-02-15	2	30°29'N / 89°42'W	30°31'N / 89°41'W	3.00 Miles	100 Yards	0	2	250K	0	Pearl River
37.8	1977-03-28	2	31°12'N / 89°18'W		0.10 Mile	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Forrest
38.2	1976-03-27	3	30°58'N / 88°40'W	30°59'N / 88°26'W	13.90 Miles	300 Yards	0	0	250K	0	George
39.3	1982-04-25	2	30°23'N / 88°32'W				0	3	250K	0	Jackson
39.6	1977-05-02	2	30°28'N / 88°30'W	30°31'N / 88°26'W	5.20 Miles	440 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Jackson
40.5	2005-01-07	2	31°11'N / 89°27'W	31°12'N / 89°25'W	3.00 Miles	300 Yards	0	0	200K	0	Lamar
		Brief Description: This tornado touched down at Hayden Road and Purvis Oloh Road and tracked north-northeast for 3 miles before lifting near Highway 589, 3 miles north of Purvis. The track basically was along Hayden Road and it was this area that receive the most significant damage. Six homes sustained minor to major roof damage and dozens of trees were uprooted and snapped. The worst damaged was to a home that lost most of its roof and second floor.
40.9	1971-02-26	2	31°10'N / 88°42'W				0	0	0K	0	Greene
41.3	1971-02-12	2	31°00'N / 88°33'W	31°03'N / 88°30'W	4.70 Miles	33 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Greene
44.8	1977-02-23	2	31°09'N / 88°42'W	31°10'N / 88°28'W	13.90 Miles	50 Yards	0	0	25K	0	Greene
44.8	2006-10-17	2	31°18'N / 89°20'W	31°18'N / 89°19'W	1.00 Mile	50 Yards	0	0	700K	0K	Lamar
		Brief Description: EVENT NARRATIVE: This strong tornado briefly touched down in the Oak Grove Community and was on the ground for 3/4 of a mile. Two homes had nearly the entire roof torn off and large wooden boards were wedged into the ground. Portions of awning were blown a mile away. Seven other homes sustained minor damage within the brief path. EPISODE NARRATIVE: A significant heavy rain and flash flooding event occurred on October 16 and into the first part of October 17. The event was set up by an anomalous pool of tropical type moisture (300% of normal) over the western Gulf of Mexico which was then pulled northward by strong low level winds in advance of a westward moving upper level disturbance. There were several other factors in play which contributed to the large amounts of rain, such as a northward moving warm front and a building upper ridge over the eastern Gulf of Mexico. The warm front helped lift the air while the building upper ridge served to weaken the westward moving upper disturbance. This then caused the progression of the heavy convective rains to slow and dump tremendous amounts of rain from southeast Texas to north and central Louisiana and then into west-central Mississippi. By late evening, dry mid level air began pushing east from Texas and allowed the heavy rain shield to move and exit the region by early Tuesday morning. Heavy rains were not the only weather type during this event, a couple of tornadoes occurred along with scattered reports of wind damage. What makes this event rare is that such a large area received 6 to 10 inches of rain and an even larger area received 4 to 6 inches. Embedded in that swath, a few locations in northern and central Louisiana received a whopping 12 to 17 inches! During this time of year, these kinds of rains usually occur from slow moving tropical cyclones, not from a warm front and westward moving upper disturbance. The result of all this rain was numerous reports of flash flooding, some even significant, across northeast Louisiana and west-central Mississippi. This event will go down in the record books for the amount of real estate covered by heavy rainfall and the several locations that measured extreme amounts.
45.0	1983-03-20	3	31°09'N / 88°34'W		1.00 Mile	200 Yards	0	0	2.5M	0	Greene
45.4	1982-05-07	3	31°17'N / 89°15'W	31°23'N / 89°09'W	8.00 Miles	100 Yards	0	1	250K	0	Forrest
47.5	1961-02-21	2	30°57'N / 89°50'W		0.80 Mile	283 Yards	0	9	250K	0	Washington
47.7	1982-11-30	2	31°05'N / 89°45'W		0.50 Mile	100 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Marion
48.0	1958-02-26	3	31°20'N / 88°54'W	31°22'N / 88°51'W	4.10 Miles	100 Yards	2	20	250K	0	Perry
48.2	1977-03-28	2	31°21'N / 89°20'W				0	0	250K	0	Forrest
48.3	1961-09-11	2	30°20'N / 89°46'W	30°20'N / 89°50'W	4.30 Miles	100 Yards	0	2	25K	0	St. Tammany
49.6	1982-05-07	3	31°23'N / 89°09'W	31°25'N / 89°06'W	5.00 Miles	100 Yards	0	0	250K	0	Perry

* The information on this page is based on the global volcano database, the U.S. earthquake database of 1638-1985, and the U.S. Tornado and Weather Extremes database of 1950-2010.