EF1 tornado, Boice, Mississippi, March 16, 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 16, 2026

Touchdown

1:43 AM CDT (06:43 UTC)

Lifted

1:46 AM CDT (06:46 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

2.0 miles (3.2 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Wayne County

Touchdown point

31.740, -88.737

Lift-off point

31.732, -88.706

Highest wind the damage implies

95 mph

Surveyed by

NWS MOB

The office's name for it

West King

Survey last edited

April 6, 2026

Record number

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

High resolution satellite imagery revealed an EF1 tornado began along Waynesboro Shubuta Road tracking east-southeast for roughly 2 miles. The tornado primarily damaged forest reaching a peak width of 200 yards just east of Waynesboro Shubuta Road. A couple older outbuildings appeared to have been damaged to destroyed via high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado lifted shortly after crossing Yellow Creek Church Drive.

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

71 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MOB, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU. The highest wind the damage implies is 95 mph.

• Tree damage visible at this location via high resolution satellite imagery.
• More substantial tree damage throughout the rest of this segment of forest visible via high resolution satellite imagery.
• Tree damage visible at this location via high resolution satellite imagery. Large section of this tree stand was taken down.
• Damage to the west end of the northernmost chicken farm visible via high resolution satellite imagery.

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

A line of thunderstorms during the overnight hours of 3/16/26 produced |significant swaths of damaging winds just north of the Highway 84|corridor and an EF1 tornado closer to West King, MS.

High resolution satellite imagery revealed an EF1 tornado began|along Waynesboro Shubuta Road tracking east-southeast for roughly|2 miles. The tornado primarily damaged forest reaching a peak|width of 200 yards just east of Waynesboro Shubuta Road. A couple|older outbuildings appeared to have been damaged to destroyed via|high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado lifted shortly|after crossing Yellow Creek Church Drive.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 02:30 UTC and running to 07:45 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 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 Mobile radar (KMOB), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 06:40 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

10 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.