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EF0 tornado in Jones County, Mississippi

Tornado April 6, 2025 · Jones County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
4.6 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

This brief EF-0 tornado touched down near Highway 29 south of Taw Jeffcoat road where it downed trees and limbs moving northeast. The tornado continued northeast doing generally light damage to a few trees and vegetation. The most substantial impacts were felt near the tornado's endpoint near Springhill Road and Copperhead Road where a large span farm outbuilding had its West-facing anchors pulled from the ground and flipped over prior to dissipation. Maximum winds were estimated at 85 mph and maximum width at 50 yards.

The wider storm

On the evening of April 5th into the morning of April 6th, strong to severe storms produced tornadoes, damaging winds and flash flooding.

Began near Soso (31.7200, -89.2700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

9 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Jasper County 1 deadEF2 Kemper CountyEF2 Smith CountyEF2 Forrest CountyEF2 Lauderdale CountyEF1 Newton CountyEF1 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Clarke CountyEF1 Leflore County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1260083. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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