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EF1 tornado in George County, Mississippi

Tornado March 4, 2025 · George County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

An EF1 tornado began near the intersection of Marshall Smith Road and Cooks Corner Road where a farm building was completely destroyed on the west side of the road. On the east side of the road, another large outbuilding/trailer was rolled off its supporting blocks and debris strewn towards the east across the entire length of the field. A hardwood tree was also snapped on the north side of the tornado vortex and another outbuilding adjacent to this was destroyed. A narrow corridor of the debris field was no more than 30 yards wide and made a right turn as it continued across the field depositing debris from the destroyed upstream structures. The tornado resumed an east-northeast path reaching Gavin Churchwell Road where it uprooted a large hardwood tree that was laying northeast. After this point, the tornado likely lifted as no signs of convergent damage could be found further northeast on Cooks Corner Road nor Highway 613.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms produced a couple tornadoes across southeastern Mississippi late in the day of March 4th.

Began near Agricola (30.8415, -88.5696).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1245294. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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