EF0 Tornado — Jackson, Mississippi

2022-10-29 · near Kreole, Jackson, Mississippi

Event narrative

An NWS Storm Survey of the Moss Point tornado found damage representative of an 80 MPH EF-0. The tornado touched near Grierson St and Hwy 63 in Jackson County, MS, where it broke large branches off trees and partially snapped a hardwood tree. It then crossed Hwy 63 and Marvin Ave moving NE and moved northward over the marsh area and crossed Elder Ferry Rd, where it snapped several more large branches and a hallowed out hardwood tree. The tornado continued northward where it crossed I-10 and broke some branches off of nearby trees, in addition to damaging a road sign. At this point, the tornado began to occlude north-northwest where it damaged a swath of deciduous trees near Old Saracennia Road within the PQL air field. The tornado then began to gradually weaken per high resolution satellite NDVI differencing and radar imagery and it is estimated to have lifted somewhere south of the Sentinel Drive neighborhood.

Wider weather episode

A surface low pressure developed over central Louisiana in response to a negatively tilted mid-level trough over northeast Texas. A warm front developed in association with the surface low and surged northward through southern Mississippi in the early afternoon. This left coastal Mississippi in the warm sector of the cyclone where modest instability and sufficient wind shear was present to produce damaging winds and tornadoes.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1060965. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.