EF1 Tornado — Wayne, Mississippi

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

Event narrative

A very brief EF1 tornado began shortly after the first to the

northeast towards Mack Hayes Drive at 8:45 PM CDT March 30th,

2022. This tornado uprooted and snapped multiple softwood trees

with one or two landing on an adjacent home. A mobile home

sustained some damage to its roof nearby. The damage on Mack Hayes

Drive was the only observable damage given nearby forest and

limited road access.

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 1014639. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.