EF1 tornado in Lauderdale County, Mississippi

The tornado started near Clarkdale Attendance Center and moved across the sports complex causing significant damage to the softball field. Most of the wooden fence around the field was knocked down and small part of the metal roofing on a building

just outside the fence was lifted. The awning over the dugout was blown off causing the structure to fail, where it damage a section of the bleachers. Most of the metal roofing was removed from the announcer's building. Several trees on the campus and just across the street were uprooted. A small metal building used for the bathroom was lifted off of the foundation. The tornado continued to track northeast, snapping large limbs and uprooting trees before dissipating in a wooded area off Springhill Road. The storm was a little over 3.6 miles long, about 50 yards wide with the strongest winds around 90 mph in Lauderdale County.

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.