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EF1 tornado in Leflore County, Mississippi

Tornado April 5, 2025 · Leflore County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

21.7 mi

Whole path

700 yd

Path width

$82K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Leflore County → Tallahatchie County → Leflore County → Tallahatchie County → Grenada County → Tallahatchie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 700 yards (0.40 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

This tornado began near US 49E north of Schlater where several utility poles were damaged. It crossed the Tallahatchie River in the Sunnyside community into southern Tallahatchie County. There, it destroyed a mobile home along Forty Mile Bend Road. The tornado then crossed the Tallahatchie River again into Leflore County, snapping a utility pole along the river and damaging multiple sheds along CR 75. A couple homes also sustained roof damage. An irrigation pivot in an adjacent field was overturned. The tornado turned more eastward, crossing the Little Tallahatchie River and snapping and uprooting numerous trees along Money Road before lifting shortly after. The total length was 7.3 miles. The maximum width was 700 yards. The maximum wind speed was 110 mph.

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 Sunnyside (33.6829, -90.3167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Jasper County 1 dead EF2 Kemper County EF2 Smith County EF2 Forrest County EF2 Lauderdale County EF1 Newton County EF1 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Clarke County EF0 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1263741. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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