F1 tornado in Neshoba and Kemper County, Mississippi

Tornado November 27, 1994 · Neshoba and Kemper County, Mississippi

Rating

16.0 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado started two miles east-southeast of Neshoba and traveled northeast and crossed into Kemper county, 5 miles west of Cleveland. The tornado was on the ground a short time in Kemper county and lifted three miles west-northwest of Cleveland. Numerous trees were blown down or snapped off along the path. Three houses, two mobile homes, and a Masonic Lodge were destroyed. Nine other dwellings sustained major damage and 26 sustained minor damage. Damage estimates were placed at $1 million.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10330370. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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