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EF0 tornado in Leake County, Mississippi

Tornado November 20, 2023 · Leake County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

An NWS storm survey team determined this brief tornado near Highway 16 had a peak windspeed of 76 mph. It snapped one tree and uprooted another tree.

The wider storm

A potent weather system developed and tracked across the Lower Mississippi River Valley during the evening of November 20. This system and associated convective activity resulted storms that produced hail, wind damage, and several tornadoes.

Began near Ofahoma (32.6940, -89.6708).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Franklin County EF1 Madison County EF1 Lincoln County EF1 Smith County EF0 Simpson County EF0 Simpson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1144194. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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