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EF1 tornado in Copiah County, Mississippi

Tornado April 25, 2026 · Copiah County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

This EF-0 tornado began west of Terry Gatesville Road where it downed multiple trees and large tree limbs along its path. It lifted beyond the eastern end of Byrd Drive north of the Gatesville community. One tree fell on a house and another fell on a shed. The estimated maximum wind speed of this tornado was 90 mph.

The wider storm

Multiple organized QLCSs push across central Mississippi and produced damaging wind gusts and several tornadoes.

Began near Gatesville (32.0152, -90.2678).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Hinds County EF1 Rankin County EF1 Simpson County EF1 Simpson County EF1 Simpson County EF1 Jasper County EF1 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Hinds County EF0 Simpson County EF0 Jasper County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1330656. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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