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EF1 tornado in Madison County, Mississippi

Tornado December 14, 2022 · Madison County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
9.5 mi
Whole path
1,000 yd
Path width
$52K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Rankin County → Hinds County → Madison County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,000 yards (0.57 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

This tornado touched down around the northern reaches of the Ross Barnett Reservoir in Rankin County where a TDS was observed on radar. The tornado moved northeast into Madison County and across the Natchez Trace Parkway where a few dozen trees were either snapped or uprooted. A few mobile homes near Rock Road were damaged, and power lines near the Reservoir were damaged. The tornado snapped and uprooted additional trees near the intersection of Whiddon Rd., Ratliff Ferry Rd., and Holmes Hollow Lane. Trees along Allenwood Drive were blown down including some onto power lines. The tornado continued to snap or uproot scattered trees as it moved northeast into the Shoccoe community. It dissipated after it crossed the intersection of Pat Luckett Rd. and Mississippi Highway 16. For the segment of track in Madison County, maximum estimated winds were 105 mph. The total path length was 8.96 miles across the two counties.

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 Shocco (32.5580, -89.8900).

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 1089572. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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