EF0 tornado in Lafayette County, Mississippi

Tornado May 8, 2008 · Lafayette County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

A weak tornado touched down in Abbeville and moved northeast causing minor damage to nine homes and one mobile home. Numerous large tree branches were snapped along County Roads 244, 294 and 296. The tornado lifted about 2 miles northeast of Abbeville.

The wider storm

A weak warm front was located across North Mississippi during the morning of May 8th, 2008. Isolated thunderstorms began developing along the front. One thunderstorm quickly became severe and produced a significant tornado. Damaging winds, large hail, flash flooding and a weak tornado occurred from other thunderstorms.

Began near Abbeville (34.5034, -89.5123).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Lee County EF2 Itawamba County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 107349. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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