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EF0 tornado in Leake County, Mississippi

Tornado May 25, 2022 · Leake County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
2.5 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 tornado touched down north of Old Canton Road near Chipley Road west of Carthage. The tornado peeled back some tin on the roof of a residence before moving northeast into Carthage. The tornado produced mainly tree and vegetation damage including uprooting some trees intermittently as it moved across Massey Cove, through

Willams, Mann and Cook streets. The tornado produced roof (mostly shingle and gutter) damage as it moved through this populated area where it reached maximum intensity with winds to 85 mph before emerging into densely wooded territory north of Cotten Blvd. The tornado moved across Highway 35 before dissipating prior to the Carthage-Leake County Airport. The maximum estimated winds were 85mph.

The wider storm

A strong storm system moved through the Lower Mississippi Valley on May 25th. An associated line of severe thunderstorms moved across portions of Mississippi producing damaging winds and two tornadoes.

Began near Carthage (32.7277, -89.5625).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Neshoba County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1029066. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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