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EF1 tornado in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

Tornado March 15, 2025 · Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
12.6 mi
Whole path
510 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Jefferson Davis County → Covington County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 510 yards (0.29 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 EF-2 tornado began southeast of Santee in Jefferson Davis County and moved northeast along Santee Methodist Road with widespread damage to trees as it moved northeast across eastern Jefferson Davis County. It crossed Bowie Creek and into Covington County near Wilson Road. The tornado destroyed several commercial chicken houses and crossed Blackjack New Chapel Road. It downed numerous trees in a wide swath, then moved across Spring Hill School Road only about 200-300 yards east of where a previous long track tornado had occurred less than an hour prior. These two tornado tracks intersected in a forested area just north of the roadway. The tornado continued northeast, where it largely destroyed three additional commercial chicken houses as well as damaged multiple buildings at a Methodist Church complex. Nearby, a building suffered substantial roof damage. The tornado continued to down trees and do mostly light to moderate damage to homes and outbuildings as it neared Old Mcintosh Road. Along T King road just west of Kirkley Road, the tornado downed numerous trees. Further northeast, an outbuilding and trees were damaged before the tornado dissipated north of Sunset Road. The maximum estimated wind speeds in Jefferson Davis County were 100 mph. The total path length was 12.7 miles across the two counties.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Bassfield (31.5225, -89.7298).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1264307. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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