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EF1 tornado in Walthall County, Mississippi

Tornado May 6, 2026 · Walthall County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

7.4 mi

Whole path

175 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 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

A NWS ground survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph tracked across portions of southeast Pike County and entered Walthall County near Harold Alford Road. It was uprooting and snapping several trees as well as taking down wooden transmission lines as it traversed this area. The tornado then weakened caused EF-0 damage to trees as it crossed Brockdale Rd and the Bogue Chitto River. The end point of this tornado is estimated to be after it crossed MS Hwy 27 after it caused additional tree damage in a confluent pattern.

The wider storm

A slowly advancing cold front was positioned beneath strong west-southwesterly flow downstream of a broad upper-level trough with embedded shortwaves. A moist low level layer and strong instability combined with strengthening deep-layer and low-level wind shear to support discrete supercells across southwest and southern Mississippi during the late afternoon and evening. These storms produced large hail and multiple tornadoes over southwest Mississippi, one EF1 and one EF2 tornado.

Began near Dillon (31.0328, -90.2597).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Wilkinson County EF0 Walthall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1344369. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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