One Mississippi county was hit by a strong tornado last Tuesday for the second time in less than three weeks following a long-track, destructive twister just before Valentine's Day.

M​arch Tornado

O​n March 4, an EF2 tornado tore a path near the town of Whistler in northern Wayne County, Mississippi, near the Alabama state line about 90 miles southeast of Jackson.

A​ccording to the National Weather Service's damage survey, two people were injured when they were thrown from their single wide manufactured home tossed up to 100 yards and destroyed by the winds. Two more were injured when their manufactured home was also rolled.

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Almost Three W​eeks Earlier

O​n February 12, a long-track EF3 tornado plowed a 26-mile long path through northern Wayne County. Several homes were either heavily damaged or destroyed, including a double wide home "completely removed" and swaths of trees of "near 100% deforestation", according to the damage survey. Miraculously, nobody was killed or injured.

A​s the map atop this article shows, the path of the February 12 tornado was within 3 miles of the shorter March 4 tornado path in Wayne County.

M​ississippi's Déjà Vu Bad Luck

T​his type of back to back pummeling from separate tornadoes has happened before, including in the Magnolia State.

A​lmost five years ago, an EF3 tornado was less than 10 miles north and west of the paths of two EF4 tornadoes in southern Mississippi, all on on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020. That was followed a week later by another violent EF4 tornado only about 20 to 40 miles south of the Easter twisters.

P​erhaps the ultimate recent example of an area hit multiple times happened during the April 27, 2011 super outbreak. Cordova, Alabama, was hit twice by a tornado within 12 hours. Marshall County, Alabama, was affected 15 separate times by a tornado that day.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Reach out to him on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook.​