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EF1 tornado in Sharkey County, Mississippi

Tornado March 23, 2025 · Sharkey County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
2.4 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 touched down near Rolling Fork causing some minor tree damage along Indian Bayou Road. It then moved northeastward into the farmlands between Indian Bayou Road and Hwy 16. The tornado struck a home at the end of Indian Bayou Road along Hwy 16 causing some roof damage and damage to a small storage building. Maximum winds were 85-90 mph. Maximum path width 50 yards. Path length 2.4 miles.

The wider storm

A round of severe storms developed during the afternoon of March 23rd and persisted into the evening hours mainly across the northern half of the area. Several supercell storms developed initially, then grew upscale into more storm clusters and ultimately dissipated as a linear system. This main hazard from this event was hail, some large up to 2 inches, then a few instances of wind damage and a lone tornado.

Began near Lorenzen (32.9194, -90.9235).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1258131. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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