EF1 tornado, Eucutta to Whistler, 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

9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)

Lifted

9:52 PM CDT (02:52 UTC)

On the ground

2 minutes

Path length

1.4 miles (2.3 km)

Path width

250 yards (229 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Wayne County

Touchdown point

31.710, -88.923

Lift-off point

31.715, -88.900

Highest wind the damage implies

110 mph

Surveyed by

NWS MOB

The office's name for it

Pleasant Grove 2

Survey last edited

April 6, 2026

Record number

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

This is the second of three EF1 tornadoes within the Pleasant Grove area, with the final two tornadoes featuring a unique interaction as they continued to the east. This northernmost tornado began north of the Old Highway 84 Loop and west of Harry Pippen Drive where some trees were uprooted in a pond lying towards the northwest. The southern extent of the tornado was along Old Highway 84 Loop where a tree was lying towards the east. Thorough review of Sentinel 2 satellite imagery revealed a coherent damage track that crossed Pleasant Grove Altair Road, ultimately merging with another tornado track that came in from the southwest on Daniel Roney Drive. When these tornado tracks came together, significant tree damage was observed along Daniel Roney Drive with numerous snaps and uproots in a roughly 250 yard wide swath. This tornado then remained the dominant one that continued northeast before occluding due north across some chicken farms along Pleasant Grove Altair Road with major loss of roof paneling. No additional damage was noted north of the road, with the tornado likely lifting after impacting the chicken farms.

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

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

• Large area of softwood snapped
• Trees uprooted and snapped
• Trees both snapped and uprooted
• Significant portion of trees damaged visible on Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. Waiting for Planet imagery to determine what the causation of the damage was.

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

A strong cold front moved across the area with a line of showers and thunderstorms. The storms produced several tornadoes and gusty winds across southeast Mississippi.

The first of three EF1 tornadoes within the Pleasant Grove area|began near or just before the Jones/Wayne County border along|Cleve Blackledge Road producing minor tree damage. 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.

This is the second of three EF1 tornadoes within the Pleasant|Grove area, with the final two tornadoes featuring a unique|interaction as they continued to the east. This northernmost|tornado began north of the Old Highway 84 Loop and west of Harry|Pippen Drive where some trees were uprooted in a pond lying|towards the northwest. The southern extent of the tornado was|along Old Highway 84 Loop where a tree was lying towards the|east. Thorough review of Sentinel 2 satellite imagery revealed a|coherent damage track that crossed Pleasant Grove Altair Road,|ultimately merging with another tornado track that came in from|the southwest on Daniel Roney Drive. When these tornado tracks|came together, significant tree damage was observed along Daniel|Roney Drive with numerous snaps and uproots in a roughly 250 yard|wide swath. This tornado then remained the dominant one that|continued northeast before occluding due north across some|chicken farms along Pleasant Grove Altair Road with major loss of|roof paneling. No additional damage was noted north of the road,|with the tornado likely lifting after impacting the chicken|farms.

This is the third of three EF1 tornadoes within the Pleasant|Grove area, with these final two tornadoes featuring a unique|interaction as they continued to the east. This southernmost|tornado began southwest of Old Highway 84 Loop causing minor|sporadic tree damage. The tornado intensified to EF1 intensity as|it began to cause more significant tree damage visible via|Sentinel 2 satellite imagery southwest of Daniel Roney Drive. The|tornado merged into the northern tornado path along Daniel Roney|Drive. Due to uncertainty on which tornado remained dominant|towards the northeast, this tornado track is estimated to have|ended just after crossing Daniel Roney Road as it turned|northward into the other tornado track. The peak width is also|estimated at approximately 50 yards based on the damage corridor|southwest of Daneil Roney Drive. After review of available high|resolution Planet satellite imagery, it was determined the|tornado began slightly earlier just off of Highway 84 where minor|tree damage was observed in a persistent, narrow path that|continued northeast into Old Highway 84 Loop.

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

1 minute of warning. NWS MOB issued a tornado warning for this county at 02:49 UTC, 1 minute before the tornado touched down, in force until 03:30 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 23:56 UTC and running to 05:04 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 00:54 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.

Laurel (LUL), 25 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 02:48 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.