EF1 tornado in Covington County, Mississippi

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Covington County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

17.8 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

$190K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

An EF-2 tornado began in northern Jefferson Davis County and moved southeast into Covington County as it weakened. It uprooted some trees along MS Highway 35 and then crossed Kelly Road and Dan Easterling Road, where it snapped and uprooted hardwood and softwood trees and removed tin roofing from a building. One tree fell onto a mobile home, and another mobile home had some minor siding damage. The tornado continued across Sunset Williamsburg Road before dissipating near the intersection of Sunset Road and US Highway 49. The maximum damage rating for the portion of this tornado in Covington County was EF-1 with an estimated maximum wind gust of 105 mph. The total path length of this tornado was 14.99 miles across both counties.

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 Mt Olive (31.6700, -89.7550).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Scott County EF1 Scott County EF1 Scott County EF1 Newton County EF1 Covington County EF1 Jones County EF1 Clarke County EF0 Lauderdale County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1020104. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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