EF0 tornado in Jackson County, Mississippi

Tornado March 30, 2022 · Jackson County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

5.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Jackson County → Mobile County, Alabama; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

NWS Storm survey confirmed a brief EF-0 tornado with estimated winds of 75 mph. The tornado touched down near Harry Pierce Road and moved northeast into Alabama and lifted just east of State Line Road. This was mostly due to tree damage and seeing a debris signature on radar. This did continue into NWS Mobile's area of responsibility for approximately 1 additional mile.

The wider storm

A strong upper level disturbance and surface low produced a line of severe thunderstorms with embedded tornadoes that impacted Southern Mississippi during the late afternoon and evening hours of Wednesday March 30, 2022. This line of thunderstorms produced straight line wind damage and a few tornadoes in the area. The strongest tornado was reported in rural areas of northern Jackson County, MS. There were also very strong gradient winds that impacted the region during the early afternoon hours and several wind gusts in excess of 50 mph were reported. 2 tornadoes developed in Mississippi from this event.

Began near Arena (30.6581, -88.4260).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1014024. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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