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EF1 tornado in Itawamba County, Mississippi

Tornado February 15, 2025 · Itawamba County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A brief, EF-1 tornado touched down just west of Blue Ridge Road near Bounds Crossroads at 10:45 PM. Multiple trees were uprooted along Mount Gilead Road. Additional trees were snapped just east of Highway 23, before the tornado lifted around 10:47 PM. Peak winds were estimated at 95 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 Eastman (34.3323, -88.2230).

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 1236827. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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