EF0 tornado in Lauderdale County, Mississippi

Tornado April 5, 2022 · Lauderdale County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

2.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

An EF-0 tornado began around the intersection of Causeyville Whynot Road and Harve Chatham Road and moved east through the Whynot community. It snapped and uprooted trees as it crossed MS Highway 19 and Old Highway 19, with one tree falling onto a home in the area. The tornado ended shortly after crossing Ponds Road. The estimated maximum wind gust was 85 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 Whynot (32.2828, -88.5065).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Scott County EF1 Scott County EF1 Scott County EF1 Newton County EF1 Covington County EF1 Jones County EF1 Clarke County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1026986. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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