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EF1 tornado in Monroe County, Mississippi

Tornado March 22, 2022 · Monroe County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

15.5 mi

Whole path

500 yd

Path width

$115K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 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

This tornado began south of West Point along Section Road in Clay County Mississippi. It uprooted a few trees as it tracked across Hackberry Road and the Kansas City Southern railroad tracks. The tornado intensified to EF1 strength and it continued to the northeast across Waverly Road and East Church Hill Road, where it snapped and uprooted hardwood and softwood trees. The tornado continued northeast to Highway 50 East, where it snapped several power poles and a few trees. The tornado continued northeast and crossed Barton Ferry Road, where it snapped several trees and caused some minor damage to a few homes. The tornado caused minor roof damage to some buildings at Prairie Livestock before snapping and uprooting additional trees along Old Vinton Road. Peak winds were estimated at 105 mph in Clay County. The tornado then continued to the northeast and crossed into Monroe County.

In Monroe County, the most significant damage occurred south of Strong Road on Lakeview Drive where several trees were snapped along with a broken power pole. Additional trees were snapped along with some large trees down on Strong Road west of the intersection of Strong Road and Darracott Road. The tornado then moved northeast and weakened producing additional tree damage on Darracott Road and also on Richardson Lake Road. The tornado dissipated near Kerr McGee Road. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph in Monroe County.

The wider storm

A quasi-linear convective system developed as a pre-frontal trough interacted with a moderately unstable atmosphere across western Mississippi during the early afternoon of March 22, 2022. This QLCS pivoted northeast and swept across parts of northeast Mississippi with damaging winds and a tornado.

Began near Strong (33.6800, -88.5460).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1012859. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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