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EF1 tornado in Hinds County, Mississippi

Tornado March 22, 2022 · Hinds County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

20.3 mi

Whole path

800 yd

Path width

$147K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Hinds County → Hinds County → Madison County → Madison County → Madison County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado began in far northern Hinds county in the bottom lands of the Yazoo River. The tornado uprooted and snapped trees for nearly 10 miles along Cox Ferry Road. The storm was most intense with winds of 100 mph near Waldrup Road, where swaths of

trees were mowed down and a large section of the roof was removed from a home. The storm was nearly 0.70 tenths of a mile at the widest. The storm lifted near Cox Ferry and Old Highway 49 just outside Flora. Maximum estimated wind speed in Hinds county was 95mph. Total path length was around 9 miles. Max width for the tornado was 800 yard.

The wider storm

A strong storm system moved through the Lower Mississippi Valley on Tuesday March 22nd. An associated line of severe thunderstorms quickly raced across Mississippi during the day resulting in widespread wind damage and numerous tornadoes.

Began near Coxs Ferry (32.5176, -90.4939).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

24 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1010847. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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