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EF1 tornado in De Soto County, Mississippi

Tornado May 18, 2025 · De Soto County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$800K
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

A short-lived and narrow EF-1 tornado with 95 mph winds touched down on Thousand Oaks Drive between Oak Bridge Drive and Jaybird Road. Damage consisted of uprooted and snapped trees in this area. The tornado dissipated east of Jaybird.

The wider storm

A bowing MCS entered northwest Mississippi during the morning hours with plentiful instability. This segment resulted in damaging winds before quickly weakening as it headed east.

Moisture surged northward as a warm front lifted across the area, which enhanced atmospheric recovery. An increasing low-level jet enhanced this risk. A supercell was able to form and flourish across Arkansas and eventually track into north Mississippi, resulting in significant wind damage and a brief tornado during the evening hours.

Began near Hernando (34.8296, -89.9603).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1260322. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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