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EF2 tornado in Forrest County, Mississippi

Tornado December 14, 2022 · Forrest County, Mississippi

EF2
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

This tornado developed along Pop Runnels Road and moved northeast near the Macedonia community. It snapped and uprooted numerous trees along its path as it crossed John Odom Rd., Coffey Lane, Cedar Grove Rd., Walters Rd., and Macedonia Rd. The roof was taken off of a small building along John Odom R.d, and a tree fell on a mobile home along Macedonia Rd. The most prolific tree damage along the path occurred along Walters Rd. the tornado lifted near Pleasant Trail. Maximum estimated winds were 115 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 Macedonia (31.3966, -89.1829).

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 1083243. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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