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EF1 tornado in Covington County, Mississippi

Tornado March 11, 2026 · Covington County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
1.1 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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 began just west of Okatoma Creek, uprooting several trees. The tornado continued northeast and ended just east of Old Highway 49, uprooting a few more trees. The maximum wind speed of this tornado was 90 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 Pickering (31.5055, -89.4473).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lincoln CountyEF1 Lincoln CountyEF1 Lincoln CountyEF1 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Jones CountyEF1 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1321488. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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