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EF0 tornado in Clarke County, Mississippi

Tornado March 30, 2022 · Clarke County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
2.1 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
$35K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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 weak tornado developed northwest of Enterprise, causing mainly tree damage along its path. One home off of County Road 371 had a small section of metal roofing removed, and another along the path had some shingle damage. The tornado tracked nearly 2 miles from near County Road 371 northeast to County Road 375 north of

the intersection with US Highway 11, where several large trees were uprooted. Numerous large limbs were snapped along the path. The tornado was a 125 yards at the widest with winds up to 80 mph.

The wider storm

A strong weather system interacted with an unstable airmass to bring widespread severe weather to the region. There was copious amounts of wind energy in the atmosphere ahead of the squall line to bring down trees and power lines from gradient winds. In addition, damaging winds and tornadoes occurred within the squall line as it moved through Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.

Began near Enterprise (32.1860, -88.8433).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Noxubee CountyEF2 Leake CountyEF2 Forrest CountyEF2 Madison ParishEF1 Holmes CountyEF1 Bolivar CountyEF1 Bolivar CountyEF1 Yazoo CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Carroll CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF1 Lamar CountyEF1 Lauderdale CountyEF1 Lauderdale CountyEF1 Warren CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Clarke CountyEF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1035604. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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