EF1 tornado in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

Tornado March 11, 2026 · Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

22.0 mi

Whole path

500 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Jefferson Davis County → 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 500 yards (0.28 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 west of MS Highway 13 near Mapp Turner Road and moved east-southeast across Greens Creek Road, Friendship Road, Martin Bass Road, Carson-Bunker Hill Road and Hunnicut Road before crossing MS Highway 35. It lifted near Bassfield-Cemetery Road as it merged with the Choctaw Road tornado. The tornado uprooted and snapped multiple trees along the path and downed power lines. A few trees were down on a couple buildings and homes. Some tin damage was noted to some sheds and skirting was blown away from a mobile home. The maximum wind speed of this tornado was 100 mph.

The wider storm

An organized line of storms was able to tap into a favorable environmental shear profile to produce several swaths of significant wind damage, as well as a few tornadoes across south central Mississippi.

Began near Lucas (31.5133, -89.9128).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lincoln County EF1 Lincoln County EF1 Lincoln County EF1 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Covington County EF1 Jones County EF1 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1321483. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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