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EF1 tornado in Simpson County, Mississippi

Tornado April 17, 2022 · Simpson County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 in a field near the intersection of US Highway 49 and MS Highway 540 where tree limbs were snapped in the wooded area near the northbound lane of Hwy 49. Along Hwy 540, numerous hardwood trees were uprooted or snapped on both sides of the road. A pine tree was snapped on the northside of the road, and a large limb was snapped and twisted from a hardwood on the southside of the road. The estimated maximum wind gust was 95 mph.

The wider storm

Several rounds of severe thunderstorms produced large hail, damaging wind gusts, and tornadoes through the day on April 17th.

Began near Mendenhall (31.9613, -89.8453).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jones County EF1 Simpson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1080295. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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