These houses were hit by two tornadoes less than one year apart
Tornadoes hit the same spot twice more often than you’d think
The odds of getting hit by a tornado are relatively low. The odds of getting hit by two tornadoes in less than a year are astronomical. But that’s the reality two families in Arkansas faced after their homes were damaged by two twisters just ten months apart.
It’s not uncommon for tornadoes to cross the paths of previous storms. In fact, that very scenario happened twice in just one hour during a recent tornado outbreak in Mississippi.
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Two houses in Arkansas, two tornadoes, one year apart
An EF-2 tornado touched down at midnight on May 27, 2024, tearing through neighbourhoods just southwest of the town of Paragould, Arkansas. Moving northwest to southeast, the twister caused significant roof and wall damage to homes on Sandwedge Drive.
And then it happened again almost ten months later.
Another EF-2 tornado touched down on March 15, 2025, this time travelling southwest to northeast toward the town of Paragould. This tornado also crossed Sandwedge Drive, making a direct hit on two homes that were damaged by the twister less than one year earlier.
Meteorologists surveying the damage couldn’t rate the damage to one of the homes hit the second time around. “Cannot rate. Home was damaged in 2024 tornado and not repaired,” the experts noted in their official survey.
Two more tornadoes cross paths within one hour
Something similar happened during another tornado outbreak later that same day.
A powerful, long-track tornado that touched down in Louisiana tracked into southern Mississippi on March 15, 2025. The twister, which earned a violent EF-4 rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, traveled through rural Covington County, Mississippi, just after 1:30 p.m. local time.
Less than one hour later, at 2:20 p.m., another significant tornado carved through the same wooded patch of Covington County. An aerial survey of the area revealed an “X” sliced through the trees where the tornadoes intersected—one travelling eastward, the other going north.
Tornadoes crossing paths aren’t uncommon
The U.S. has seen more than 70,000 tornadoes since reliable recordkeeping began back in 1950. It’s inevitable that, out of so many tornadoes, at least some will cross paths with one another.
While it’s rare for tornadoes to hit the same spot so soon, there are thousands of documented cases where tornado paths have crisscrossed one another separated by years and even decades.
One infamous example of tornadoes hitting the same spot twice shows up near Wichita, Kansas. Multiple destructive tornadoes have hit the city and its suburbs, including a scale-topping F5 that tore through the region on April 26, 1991.
In fact, a small stretch of southern Wichita saw four tornadoes cross each other’s paths five separate times between 1953 and 2012.