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EF1 tornado in Winston County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2025 · Winston County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
4.3 mi
Path length
250 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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 began just west of Jack Warner Road, where it snapped a few trees and caused damage to the roof of a home along with a shed. The tornado continued northeast across Boon Road and caused extensive damage to a gas station. A tree fell on a house at this location. The tornado continued northeast across J.C. Sullivan Road and snapped a few more trees and damaged a shed. The tornado continued across Highway 14, before it ended just northeast of Highway 14 with a few more snapped trees. The maximum winds were 110 mph.

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 Boon (33.0885, -88.9686).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1235401. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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