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EF0 tornado in Lowndes County, Mississippi

Tornado March 15, 2024 · Lowndes County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.6 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down near the community of Woodlawn in eastern Lowndes County. The path began near Caledonia Steens Road where the tornado damaged the roof to a home and a carport. It continued to damage a few trees along MS Highway

12 and then it dissipated.

The wider storm

A cold front moved through the region and caused a line of storms to push across the area and bring some isolated severe storms.

Began near Steens (33.6070, -88.3313).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Lowndes County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1163926. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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