EF1 Tornado — Wayne, Mississippi

2022-03-30 · near Waynesboro, Wayne, Mississippi

Event narrative

The first of several tornadoes began 4 miles southwest of Woodwards

at 8:43 PM CDT on March 30th, 2022. The tornado began off of

Dubie Graham Drive where a house suffered moderate roof damage

with shingles torn off and partial uplift of the roof deck.

Several softwood trees were uprooted/snapped as it continued east

across Little Rock Road. This was the only area of notable

convergent damage and due to limited road access the start and end

points have been estimated.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1014638. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.