EF1 Tornado — Carroll, Mississippi

2025-03-14 · near Valley Hill, Carroll, Mississippi

Event narrative

An EF-2 tornado began along US Highway 49 northwest of Belzoni where it snapped several power poles. It tracked northeast towards Jaketown and snapped softwood trees and damaged the roof of a home. It continued to snap trees as it crossed into Leflore County east of MS Highway 7. A trailer in the area was also damaged. As it encountered the community of Mayday, it snapped several power poles and damaged a metal building. It then crossed the Yazoo River into Holmes County briefly before crossing back into Leflore County southwest of Sidon and snapped hardwood trees and power poles. As it encountered the southern side of Greenwood, multiple mobile homes were destroyed. Trees were snapped and uprooted and one tree was blown onto a home. Dozens of well built homes sustained roof damage, mostly shingle loss. As it continued along its path, power poles were snapped and hardwood trees were uprooted. Several additional homes sustained damage and a couple of mobile homes were destroyed. A shed was damaged as well. Before the wind equipment stopped reporting, a peak gust of 92 mph was measured by the MS Delta Agricultural Weather Center mesonet site in Sidon as the tornado passed by. The tornado continued into Carroll County just north of US Highway 82 and dissipated northeast of County Road 350. The estimated maximum wind speeds in Leflore County were 120 mph. The total path length was 36.3 miles across the four counties.

Wider weather episode

Isolated severe thunderstorms developed across portions of Mississippi in the overnight hours of March 14th. Coverage of severe storms increased into the morning of the 15th before a squall line developed and moved across the area.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1259530. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.