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EF0 tornado in Lamar County, Mississippi

Tornado March 30, 2022 · Lamar County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
7.3 mi
Whole path
25 yd
Path width
$35K
Damage as recorded

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

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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

This weak tornado began on the east side of downtown Purvis near the intersection of US Highway 11 and MS Highway 589 where a portion of a gas station canopy was removed, minor tree damage occurred, and a sign was blown down. The tornado continued northeast downing trees and snapping large tree branches as it crossed US 11, Sherlock Herring Road, and Harold Tucker Road, E Hill Road, and White Chapel Road. On E Hill Road, a portion of a metal roof was blown off. The tornado lifted as it reached Interstate 59 in western Forrest County where additional minor tree damage was noted. The maximum estimated wind speed of this tornado was 85 mph. Total path length was 7.3 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 Purvis (31.1450, -89.4044).

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 Clarke County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1035755. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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