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EF0 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

Tornado March 22, 2022 · Smith County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$2K

Crop damage

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

This tornado started between county road 120 and Highway 501. A couple trees were damaged and a large tree was uprooted on the west side of 501 along with multiple large limbs down. East of 501, a handful of trees were damaged along a tree line across a pasture. The tornado dissipated shortly thereafter. Maximum estimated winds were 80mph.

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 Pineville (32.1109, -89.4196).

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 1012367. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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