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EF0 tornado in Newton County, Mississippi

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Newton County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
2.1 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Scott County → Newton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A brief EF-1 tornado began in southeastern Scott County and then weakened as it crossed into southwestern Newton County and caused mainly minor tree damage. The tornado damaged doors on a farm outbuilding near Ponderosa Road and then dissipated. The total path for this tornado was 2.27 miles across both counties. A tornadic debris signature was detected by radar with this tornado. The highest damage rating for the portion of this tornado in Newton County was EF-0 with an estimated maximum wind gust of 80 mph.

The wider storm

A low pressure system moving east along the Arkansas Louisiana border helped to organize a line of severe thunderstorms early in the morning of April 5th. Widespread severe wind gusts and several tornadoes occurred with this squall line as it moved east across Mississippi. Some hail also occurred with these storms.

Began near Lawrence (32.3000, -89.3220).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Scott CountyEF1 Scott CountyEF1 Newton CountyEF1 Covington CountyEF1 Jones CountyEF1 Clarke CountyEF0 Lauderdale County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1020094. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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