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EF0 tornado in Madison County, Mississippi

Tornado January 9, 2026 · Madison County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
4.6 mi
Whole path
75 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 weak tornado touched down near Highway 43 and Matlock Road in eastern Madison county and tracked 4.6 miles and dissipated at Red Dog Road in western Leake County. Tree damage, from a handful of uprooted trees, were the main damage at the very beginning of the path. It crossed into Leake County at Forest Grove Road. The remaining damage was mostly small and large limbs blown down along Red Dog Road and the Natchez Trace. One large limb downed a power line. The total path length across Madison and Leak counties was 4.6 miles.

The wider storm

Severe storms with sufficient shear and instability produced severe weather across central Mississippi. The main feature, a mesovortex within a broken line of storms, produced several weak, brief tornadoes and some damaging winds in central Mississippi. This event featured multiple rounds of storms as well as heavy rainfall, which led to flash flooding across southeastern portions of the area.

Began near Revive (32.7595, -89.7519).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jasper CountyEF1 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Walthall CountyEF0 Jones CountyEF0 Jasper CountyEF0 Lawrence County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1305947. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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