Tornado hits Sardis: No injuries reported after EF-1 touches down near Sixmile Creek
Published 9:45 am Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- The church van of East Salem MB Church was tossed by an EF-1 tornado on Sunday morning. | NWS Photo
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The National Weather Service has determined that another tornado has hit Dallas County.
The latest tornado hit near the Sardis community of Dallas County on Sunday morning around church time.
Jessica Laws, NWS meteorologist, said the tornado touched down at 10:13 a.m. Sunday near Sixmile Creek off of County Road 67 and stayed on the ground for two minutes covering a path length of 1.32 miles. It lifted just north of Giles Road on County Road 67.
This tree was uprooted along the damage path. | NWS photo
Laws said the tornado was unlike the Plantersville tornado on March 15.
“There was a cluster of storms that came together, and they started spinning,” Laws said. “The radar showed a TDS (tornado debris signature) on one of the scans. That means the radar confirmed that there was a tornado on the ground.”
The tornado was rated an EF-1 with maximum winds of 95 mph and maximum width of 400 yards. Most of the damage was from downed trees. Some pine trees were also snapped.
Here is a map of the tornado path near Sardis. | NWS graphic
Laws said the storm came close to a church. The only non-tree damage reported during the incident occurred there.
NWS surveys indicated that a “van and a truck were overturned in a church parking lot, with the truck tumbling about 50 feet and the van tumbling into, but not snapping a power pole. The tornado continued to uproot and snap trees as it moved northward for several hundred yards, but then began to lose strength just as quickly as it had intensified.”
However, no injuries were reported.
Survey teams were sent out on Monday and confirmed the damage and giving it the EF-1 rating.
