EF0 tornado in Perry County, Mississippi

An EF-0 tornado continued to move northeast across the Forrest

and Perry County line toward the community of Janice. Sporadic

tree damage was noted along this path with a few trees uprooted

along Ashe Nursery Rd near the county line. The tornado lifted a

little more than 3 miles away from the county line near New York

Rd to the west-southwest of Janice. This EF-0 tornado in southwest

Perry County is a continuation of the EF-2 tornado that tracked

across southeast Forrest County. For more information on the rest

of the tornado track in Forrest county, see the PNS from NWS

Jackson, MS.

A very active severe weather season continued as an outbreak of severe thunderstorms occurred across the area from the evening of the 30th into the early morning hours on the 31st. A strong spring storm system moved across the area. Ahead of the system plenty of Gulf moisture returned to the central Gulf coast. This led to a very unstable atmosphere over the region which combined to strong wind shear to produce 18 tornadoes which were rated from EF-0 to EF-2. In addition to the tornadoes, the storms produced damaging straight line winds and large hail. Numerous reports of damage came in from southeast Mississippi, southwest Alabama and the western Florida panhandle.