EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

Tornado March 30, 2022 · Wayne County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

2.6 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wayne County → Wayne County → Wayne County; 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 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

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.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Waynesboro (31.6558, -88.7100).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Perry County EF2 Perry County EF1 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1014638. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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