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EF1 tornado in Rankin County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2025 · Rankin County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
11.1 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$160K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This tornado touched down just north of Shilo Road and tracked NE for 11 miles before it dissipated just past Leesburg Road. Much of the damage along the path was damaged trees along with uproots and snapped trees, some power lines were down as well. Just off of Gulde Road, chicken houses were damaged with much of their roofs pealed off. Peak intensity was from the chicken house area to Lake Road where the most tree snaps were noted. The maximum wind speed was around 105 mph. One indirect injury was noted as a train ran into a downed tree on the rail road in the area of the damaged chicken houses.

The wider storm

A potent weather system moved across the region on January 5th and produced a round of severe storms across the region into the early morning hours of the 6th. These storms produced damaging winds and tornadoes.

Began near Rankin (32.2541, -89.9184).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Noxubee CountyEF1 Winston CountyEF1 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Smith CountyEF0 Lawrence CountyEF0 Jefferson Davis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1235394. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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