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EF0 tornado in Rankin County, Mississippi

Tornado April 13, 2022 · Rankin County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
2.8 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
$1K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

An EF-0 tornado touched down near Hole 1 on the Refuge golf course, where it blew a tree down, and then moved east across Airport Road. Another tree was blown down near the road. A very narrow and intermittent condensation funnel could be seen from the NWS Jackson Forecast Office as it moved across the Jackson - Medgar Wiley Evers airfield. The tornado appeared to broaden and become more easily visible as it moved to the eastern side of the airfield, with several storm chaser reports and videos showing development as the tornado moved across East Metro Parkway and the forested area between there and Cooper Road. Scattered small tree limbs were blown down where the tornado crossed East Metro Parkway and also near the intersection of Cooper Road and Dogwood Place where the tornado dissipated. The estimated peak wind gust was 70 mph.

The wider storm

A few rounds of severe thunderstorms moved across portions of Mississippi from late in the evening of April 12th through the evening of April 13th. These storms produced wind damage and several tornadoes before a cold front brought an end to storms from west to east.

Began near Luckney (32.3152, -90.0910).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Jasper CountyEF1 Warren CountyEF1 Warren CountyEF1 Rankin CountyEF1 Rankin CountyEF1 Leake CountyEF1 Neshoba CountyEF1 Jones CountyEF1 Winston CountyEF1 Oktibbeha CountyEF1 Noxubee CountyEF1 Scott CountyEF1 Newton CountyEFU Yazoo County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1046623. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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