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EF0 tornado in Lawrence County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2025 · Lawrence County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

6.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$16K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lawrence County → Simpson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 weak tornado touched down just south of Sills Ferry Road. Along its path, it blew down weak and dead trees, did minor roof damage to a house, and tossed a trampoline. It continued to do weak tree damage before it dissipated just over the Simpson County line.

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 Oma (31.7243, -90.0773).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Noxubee County EF1 Rankin County EF1 Winston County EF1 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Smith County EF0 Jefferson Davis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1235413. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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