EF0 tornado in Jones County, Mississippi

Tornado March 11, 2026 · Jones County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

4.0 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

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

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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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 tornado began just west of the Wayne County border along Blackledge Road where it produced minor tree damage and moved east into Wayne County. The tornado remained solely between Cleve Blackledge Road and Pleasant Grove Road. It reached its strongest point just prior to reaching Pleasant Grove Road where it caused significant tree damage evident on Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. A small building to the south of Cleve Blackledge Road also sustained significant damage visible on the satellite imagery but was likely associated with intense RFD winds rounding the south side of the tornado as debris was thrown towards the southeast. Estimated peak wind speeds in Jones County were 85 mph. Total path length was 1.66 miles across both counties.

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 Mill Creek (31.7185, -88.9533).

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 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Covington County EF1 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1344444. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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