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EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

Tornado March 16, 2026 · Wayne County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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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

High resolution satellite imagery revealed an EF1 tornado began

along Waynesboro Shubuta Road tracking east-southeast for roughly

2 miles. The tornado primarily damaged forest reaching a peak

width of 200 yards just east of Waynesboro Shubuta Road. A couple

older outbuildings appeared to have been damaged to destroyed via

high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado lifted shortly

after crossing Yellow Creek Church Drive.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms during the overnight hours of 3/16/26 produced

significant swaths of damaging winds just north of the Highway 84

corridor and an EF1 tornado closer to West King, MS.

Began near Boice (31.7397, -88.7375).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1325228. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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