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EF0 tornado in Holmes County, Mississippi

Tornado December 14, 2022 · Holmes County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

5.9 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado touched down in the Hillside National Wildlife Refuge southeast of Tchula and near Howard, along Blissdale Road. The tornado moved northeast and produced intermittent tree damage as it crossed Mississippi Highway 12 and dissipated near Chinquipin Rd. Estimated peak winds were 80 mph.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms moved across Mississippi during the evening and overnight hours of the 13th into the 14th, with flash flooding across areas of the Delta and several tornadoes. Severe storm coverage diminished during the night, but storms became severe again during the afternoon of the 14th as a cold front interacted with a warm and unstable air mass in the region. Tornadoes on the 14th were generally along and south of the Interstate 20 corridor with severe storms continuing into the evening.

Began near Howard (33.1200, -90.1900).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1077245. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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