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EF1 tornado in Choctaw County, Mississippi

Tornado November 29, 2022 · Choctaw County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
5.1 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$11K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

An EF-1 tornado began along Bethany-Ebenezer Road in northwestern Winston County. The tornado mainly uprooted, snapped, or damaged trees along its path. It crossed Turnipseed Road, Miller Road, and then into the Highpoint community before it moved into southeastern Choctaw County near Eiland Road. It snapped a few trees before it dissipated near the intersection of Mississippi Highway 15. The peak estimated wind speed was 90 mph. The total path length across the two counties was 5.06 miles.

The wider storm

As a low pressure system moved from the High Plains toward the Great Lakes on November 29th, a warm front lifted north from the Gulf Coast. Strong wind shear interacted with the increasingly unstable environment across Mississippi, and widespread strong to severe thunderstorms developed through the day and into the evening. This severe weather episode was marked by many supercell thunderstorms which were observed on radar and by storm chasers in the region. Large hail fell mainly in areas through the Delta Region, but damaging wind gusts and tornadoes were common through much of the central and southern portions of the state. The strongest tornadoes were rated EF-2.

Began near Tollison (33.1980, -89.1440).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1069105. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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