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EF1 tornado in Hinds County, Mississippi

Tornado March 30, 2022 · Hinds County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
6.0 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded

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

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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 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

This tornado began along Youngston Road in eastern Warren County snapping and uprooting multiple trees then continued eastward across the Big Black River into northwest Hinds County. Here it moved across private hunting club property and snapped and uprooted several trees in a narrow path crossing Halifax Road. In addition, the tornado path crossed the larger path of the EF-2 North Brownsville tornado from just 8 days before on March 22nd. The maximum estimated wind speed for this entire tornado was 100 mph. The total path length for the tornado was 5.97 miles.

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 Orange Hill (32.4650, -90.6000).

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 Hinds CountyEF1 Clarke CountyEF0 Clarke CountyEF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1035745. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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