EF1 tornado, Stone County, Mississippi, June 18, 2026

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

June 18, 2026

Touchdown

8:24 AM CDT (13:24 UTC)

Lifted

8:26 AM CDT (13:26 UTC)

On the ground

2 minutes

Path length

1.0 miles (1.6 km)

Path width

210 yards (192 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Stone County

Touchdown point

30.891, -89.002

Lift-off point

30.895, -88.986

Highest wind the damage implies

110 mph

Surveyed by

NWS MOB

The office's name for it

Whites Crossing 2

Survey last edited

August 4, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

After reviewing available Sentinel 2 and Planet high resolution satellite imagery, it was determined a brief EF1 tornado occurred northeast of Whites Crossing, shortly after the first EF1 tornado had dissipated. This is also supported by a brief radar indicated tornado debris signature off of KMOB in this area. This tornado caused substantial tree damage primarily in forest after crossing Melton Hatten Road. The tornado lifted in the forest due north of Miles Cemetery Road.

Written by NWS MOB in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

76 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MOB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 110 mph.

• numerous large limbs also down in this area
• Tree damage visible at this location via Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.
• several large trees downed along with roof damage to a few sheds and outbuildings
• Significant corridor of downed softwood and hardwood trees with some snaps of softwoods. Strong convergence zone which is likely the center track of the tornado.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Hattiesburg Municipal (HBG), 48 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 76 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 13:20 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

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50 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.