EF2 tornado in Wilkinson County, Mississippi

Tornado April 10, 2024 · Wilkinson County, Mississippi

EF2

Rating

14.6 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana → Wilkinson County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

The remaining portion of a long track tornado entered Wilkinson County from West Feliciana approximately 2.5 miles east of Highway 967 or Jackson Louisiana Road. Ground surveys were impeded due to lack of road access. High resolution satellite analysis was used for this survey. Downed trees indicated that the tornado continued for about 1 mile into Mississippi before it lifted. This was the conclusion of a 16.9 mile long track.

The wider storm

A strong upper level disturbance, surface low, and cold front produced a line of severe thunderstorms that pushed across Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi in the morning and early afternoon hours of Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The line of severe thunderstorms produced strong straight line winds, extensive flash flooding in the New Orleans metro area and several tornadoes. 12 tornadoes have been confirmed in Mississippi from this event. 3 of them developed in Louisiana and tracked into Mississippi. 5 of those 12 tornadoes touched down and tracked across Stennis Space Center. At one point, as many as 3 of those 5 were on the ground at the same time. These tornadoes have been determined to range in strength from EFU to EF1 after NWS storm surveys and high resolution satellite analysis were conducted.

Began near Turnbull (30.9995, -91.2451).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 St. Tammany Parish EF1 Harrison County EF0 Hancock County EF0 Harrison County EF0 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1172721. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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