EF1 tornado, Greene County, Mississippi, May 6, 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

May 6, 2026

Touchdown

8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)

Lifted

8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)

On the ground

9 minutes

Path length

4.4 miles (7.1 km)

Path width

120 yards (110 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Greene County

Touchdown point

31.209, -88.663

Lift-off point

31.233, -88.595

Highest wind the damage implies

90 mph

Surveyed by

NWS MOB

The office's name for it

Jonathan

Survey last edited

June 10, 2026

Record number

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

After review of available medium to high resolution satellite imagery, it was determined an EF1 tornado occurred near Jonathan. This tornado began southwest of Highway 63 where it began causing intermittent tree damage across portions of the forest. After crossing Highway 63, it moved into some open fields where it continued to cause tree damage in a focused corridor. The tornado strengthened on approach to Jonathan Road where a more persistent corridor of tree damage was able to be observed. The tornado continued northeast across Jonathan Road, reaching its peak intensity around 90mph just northwest of Albert Smith Road where a corridor of more substantial treefall was evident on satellite imagery. The damage path becomes intermittent after this point, with the last visible tree damage east of the Albert Smith Road and Old Avera Road intersection. This is also where the radar tornado debris signature dissipates, and no further damage is evident further east via satellite imagery. Adjustments to the tornado are possible later as high-resolution satellite imagery becomes available over the next month.

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

28 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 100 mph.

• Light roofing damage to outbuilding. One single tree snapped but trunk is heavily rotted. Small limbs broken as tornado appears to be weakening.
• Tree damage visible at this location via Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.
• Minor tree damage visible at this location via Sentinel 2 satellite imagery.
• Minor tree damage visible at this location via sentinel 2 satellite imagery.

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), 59 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:15 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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9 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.