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EF1 tornado in George County, Mississippi

Tornado January 9, 2024 · George County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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

NWS Storm Survey found damage associated with an EF-1 tornado

about 6.3 miles south-southeast of Lucedale, Mississippi where

several large longleaf pines were snapped anywhere from 3 to

15 feet above the base. A wider swath of damaging wind likely

extended south and southeast of the tornado where small branches

were snapped. The tornado was likely discontinuous or

intermittent as it proceeded toward the east across US Highway

98. Once high-resolution satellite imagery becomes available, the

tornado path will be able to be refined.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms moved across southeast Mississippi starting during the evening hours of January 8th and continued through early morning hours of the 9th. This system produced two EF-0's and one EF-1 in Mississippi.

Began near Shipman (30.9028, -88.4892).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1152302. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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