EF1 tornado in Bolivar County, Mississippi

A brief tornado touched down in the middle of Cleveland near Shelby Street where it crossed Jones Bayou, moved to the east-northeast and damaged several houses and businesses in the area. A few businesses in the downtown area between E Sunflower Road and E North Street lost a portion of their roofs, and a car dealership along E End Street had broken windows and damage to some of its buildings. The tornado continued northeast across E Sunflower Road at the intersection with N Martin Luther King Drive, where it damaged a gas station canopy. After damaging an office building and metal outbuilding near Bolivar Medical Center, the tornado dissipated north of the hospital. This tornado injured one person in an unknown location where the victim suffered cuts from broken window glass at a nearby hair salon. The maximum estimated wind speed with this tornado was 100 mph.

A strong weather system interacted with an unstable airmass to bring widespread severe weather to the region. There was copious amounts of wind energy in the atmosphere ahead of the squall line to bring down trees and power lines from gradient winds. In addition, damaging winds and tornadoes occurred within the squall line as it moved through Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.