EF1 tornado, Oakland, Mississippi, March 11, 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

March 11, 2026

Touchdown

7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)

Lifted

7:50 PM CDT (00:50 UTC)

On the ground

2 minutes

Path length

1.6 miles (2.6 km)

Path width

375 yards (343 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Pike County

Touchdown point

31.267, -90.536

Lift-off point

31.273, -90.510

Highest wind the damage implies

110 mph

Surveyed by

NWS LIX

The office's name for it

Magnolia Pisgah Rd Tornado

Survey last edited

June 8, 2026

Record number

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

A strong EF-1 tornado touched down south of Hwy 570 near Moak Rd in Pike County, MS. This tornado rapidly strengthened and grew in size as it tracked to the east-northeast causing destruction of a wood frame farm outbuilding and increasingly significant treefall as it crossed Kodiak Ln and Magnolia Pisgah Rd. While there was a high proportion of treefall associated with this tornado in this area, a significant portion was due to uprooted trees from soft soils due to recent heavy rainfall. As such, maximum sustained winds were estimated near 110 mph despite the heavy deforestation. This level of heavy deforestation spanning approximately 375 yards wide at peak width continued across Hwy 570 to Dye Ln where tree damage rapidly became less significant. It's estimated that this tornado rapidly lifted as it crossed Magee Rd.

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

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

• Multiple trees down and converging. All softwood and all uprooted.
• Pine snapped and fell to the east but is actually pointed back to the west.
• Multiple tree uprooted and one fell on a house.
• Multiple trees snapped and uprooted. Golf cart picked up from under porch and ended up in the pond. Some trees were pointed to the west.

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

Environmental conditions favorable for a QLCS (Quasi-Linear Convective System) tornado event developed across southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi during the afternoon and evening hours of March 11th. An upper-level storm system moving east from Texas overspread a very moist and increasingly unstable air mass in place across the region. At the same time, intense low-level wind shear and strong atmospheric spin developed as southerly winds strengthened ahead of an approaching line of storms with bowing segments.||The combination of rich Gulf moisture, strong low-level atmospheric spin, and a fast-moving line of thunderstorms created an environment supportive of embedded rotating circulations along the leading edge of the QLCS. As that line moved west to east across the local area, several rapidly developing tornadoes formed within these circulations. A total of 6 tornadoes were confirmed across southwest Mississippi and multiple reports of damaging straight-line winds were also received.

A strong EF-1 tornado touched down south of Hwy 570 near Moak Rd in Pike County, MS. This tornado rapidly strengthened and grew in size as it tracked to the east-northeast causing destruction of a wood frame farm outbuilding and increasingly significant treefall as it crossed Kodiak Ln and Magnolia Pisgah Rd. While there was a high proportion of treefall associated with this tornado in this area, a significant portion was due to uprooted trees from soft soils due to recent heavy rainfall. As such, maximum sustained winds were estimated near 110 mph despite the heavy deforestation. This level of heavy deforestation spanning approximately 375 yards wide at peak width continued across Hwy 570 to Dye Ln where tree damage rapidly became less significant. It's estimated that this tornado rapidly lifted as it crossed Magee Rd.

An EF-1 tornado with peak estimated winds near 105 mph and max width of 300 yards touched down near Johnston Chapel Rd. A broadly defined area of uprooted and damaged trees was identified via high resolution satellite imagery near the beginning of this path which continued east-southeast across Old Brookhaven Rd and Interstate 55. This damage was corroborated by a storm report with pictures of numerous uprooted trees near Chapel Dr. The tornado began to strengthen and increase in size with complex multi-vortex behaviors evident according to the damage path present after crossing I-55. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along US Hwy 51, Rollingwood Drive, and Johnston Station Rd. Additional tree damage was surveyed near Lakeside Drive on Southwest Mississippi Community College campus. The tornado continued east destroying a cinderblock dugout at North Pike High School. More tree damage was also identified on Barrett Drive and Jaguar Trail. Scattered pockets of wind damage were evident via ground survey across Barnett Rd and L.D. White Rd, but the most cohesive damage points representative of a tornado damage path were evident to the southeast as the multi-vortex tornado continued to produce patches and swaths of tree damage on high resolution satellite imagery near Hwy 570 and and River Ridge Rd. The tornado damage path evidently became incoherent after crossing River Ridge Rd and it's estimated the tornado lifted prior to reaching Hwy 44.

An EF-1 tornado with peak winds of 90 mph and width of 175 yards rapidly developed along Hwy 570, northwest of McComb, MS on the evening of March 11th. This tornado damage path was distinctly different to the predecessor tornado along Hwy 570 as most of the confluent damage was directed southeast and east as the KHDC velocity signature denoted the strong rotation center of this tornado diving southeastward along the highway. This tornado uprooted several trees, snapped the tops of tree trunks, tossed a golf cart approximately 70 yards, and caused minor roof damage to a couple homes as it tracked along the highway. Additional tree damage was near Delaware Avenue where confluence of damage direction was identified. These damage path characteristics are subject to change.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

13 minutes of warning. NWS LIX issued a tornado warning for this county at 00:35 UTC, 13 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 01:15 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 23:56 UTC and running to 02:23 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 19:58 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

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.

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:45 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.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2026 tornado in MississippiEvery tornado in Mississippi since 1950Warnings in force in Mississippi nowThe forecast where you are

56 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.