EF1 tornado in Clarke County, Mississippi

Tornado May 26, 2025 · Clarke County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

8.7 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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-1 tornado touched down just north of Enterprise and tracked east-northeast through the Basic community and dissipated just east of Highway 45 in far southern Lauderdale County. Scattered trees were broken and uprooted along the path. Most of the tree damage was along county road 379 and 350. The maximum estimated wind speeds in Clarke County were 90 mph. The total path length was 8.77 miles across the two counties.

The wider storm

Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms developed across portions of Mississippi during the afternoon of May 25th before a west-east oriented squall line developed and spread southward overnight. Another squall line moved through on the 26th as a cold front moved east. Storms produced wind damage and hail.

Began near Enterprise (32.1900, -88.8264).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1280186. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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