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EF0 tornado in Itawamba County, Mississippi

Tornado February 15, 2025 · Itawamba County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
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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

A short-lived EF-0 touched down along Dulaney Wilemon Road just south of Fairview, MS at 10:39 PM. The tornado caused multiple trees to be uprooted along Dulaney Wilemon Road, with some damage to a single-family home with metal roofing peeling off the structure. By 10:40 PM, the tornado lifted just before Old Highway 25 North. There was additional, minor tree damage found on Byram Road attributed to damaging wind gusts. Peak wind was estimated at 85 mph.

The wider storm

An upper-level trough crossed the Four Corners region and dipped into northern Mexico on February 14, 2025. A warm front quickly accelerated northward into the Mid-South during the morning of February 15, 2025, as surface low pressure traversed the Southern Plains. The front stalled across the northern parts of the Mid-South. The airmass south of the warm front destabilized during the afternoon hours on February 15th. As the surface low tracked into the Mid-South a line of severe storms developed and pushed across the region during the evening hours of February 15th exiting into Middle Tennessee and northern Alabama by midnight. Damaging winds, large hail, and a few weak tornadoes occurred.

Began near Fulton Itawanba Co A (34.3294, -88.3419).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1236824. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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