EF0 tornado — Walthall County, Mississippi

EF0 tornado in Walthall County, Mississippi

Tornado February 8, 2023 · Walthall County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 brief tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 27 and Mannings Crossing Road causing minor roof and siding damage to a church. This tornado continued northeast across rural farmland and crossed Elmer Howell Road uprooting and snapping small softwood trees. This tornado dissipated across rural forested areas to the northeast.

The wider storm

A surface low and frontal boundary stalled over northeast Texas on the afternoon of February 7th. An upper level low coming out of the desert southwest tracking eastward began to drive the front in Texas eastward. At the same time, the surface low began to deepen and occlude while moving northeastward. Thunderstorms developed both ahead of the front in the warm sector and directly along the cold front as it passed through the local area. A couple storms in southwest Mississippi became severe producing one short-lived EF-0 tornado and another produced damaging winds. No injuries with either storm.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1083315. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Walthall County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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