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EF0 tornado in Harrison County, Mississippi

Tornado April 10, 2024 · Harrison County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
4.9 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

As the mesovortex tracked east into Harrison County, another tornado developed on the trailing flank of it and tracked east-southeast over primarily inaccessible rural land near the Wolf River. High resolution satellite imagery NDVI differencing identified a scalloped path that starts near F Malley Road in Dedeaux, MS and continues east-southeast where a ground survey identified numerous large tree branches snapped as well as a mobile home that had slid off its blocks. The tornado crossed River Road with minimal damage evident although the track remained visible on NDVI differencing as it crossed the Wolf River. The most notable tree damage from this tornado appears to be located along the river bank, but is not accessible to provide a rating for. The apparent track of the tornado continues east across Wolf River Road and appears to conclude just short of Alcede Lizana Road.

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 Ligana (30.5009, -89.3236).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1178278. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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