Hail — Jackson, Mississippi

2025-03-15 · near Wade, Jackson, Mississippi

Event narrative

A post on social media showed one inch hail near Lucedale.

Wider weather episode

A potent weather system impacted the local area, producing a rare EF-4 tornado. Only a few tornadoes that strong have developed in the local forecast area. Just as impressive. an EF-3 tornado tracked barely a mile to the east of the EF-4 and only 45 minutes later. The environment needed for violent and long lived tornadoes, were in place right as a cold front approached from the west. Unfortunately, there were 4 fatalities with the tornadoes that did develop.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1256173. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.