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EF0 tornado in Jackson County, Mississippi

Tornado March 30, 2025 · Jackson County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.9 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$5K

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 brief EF0 tornado touched down just west of Vancleave, MS. Utilizing drone data from Jackson County Emergency Management, a short track was identified consisting of uprooted trees, large branches down and minor home damage.

The wider storm

A weak mid level disturbance moved across the northern Gulf Coast on March 30th. This, combined with sufficient low level moisture as well as low level shear, aided in the development of a few severe thunderstorms that produced two weak tornadoes.

Began near Vancleave (30.5400, -88.7900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1256646. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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