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EF1 tornado in Hinds County, Mississippi

Tornado March 25, 2024 · Hinds County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
8.8 mi
Whole path
880 yd
Path width
$60K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 880 yards (0.50 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 started near West Northside Drive where it snapped a couple of trees. It traveled northeast and crossed Clinton-Tinnin Road and Kickapoo Road where the tornado continued to snap and uproot several trees. The tornado then crossed Pinehaven Drive and Highway 49 and snapped and uprooted a few more trees. Where it crossed Maclean Road, it snapped and uprooted trees including one which fell onto the roof of a home. The tornado dissipated shortly after it crossed County Line Road into Madison County. Maximum estimated wind speeds in Hinds County were 105 mph. The total path length was 8.84 miles across the two counties.

The wider storm

As a low pressure system moved across the country, strong to severe thunderstorms developed and moved across portions of Mississippi. These storms produced damaging wind gusts, hail, flooding rainfall, and a tornado.

Began near Clinton (32.3757, -90.3705).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1163945. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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