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EF0 tornado in Simpson County, Mississippi

Tornado November 20, 2023 · Simpson County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

3.3 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$20K

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 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, weak tornado touched down near Williams Creek in Simpson County. The tornado moved northeast, crossing highway 28. It then moved into a wooded area north of highway 28 and dissipated near Jupiter Road. It's maximum wind speed was 80 mph. It's maximum width was 75 yards. It's track length was approximately 3 miles.

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 Bush (31.8603, -90.0208).

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 Leake County EF0 Simpson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1144389. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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