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EF1 tornado in Lawrence County, Mississippi

Tornado May 13, 2024 · Lawrence County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

230 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 230 yards (0.13 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

An EF-1 tornado touched down just west of Renfroe Road and Gaskin Lane. This tornado developed on the north side of an intense downburst and wind swath as a brief spin-up. Despite the brevity, numerous trees were uprooted or snapped along the path with trees blown down to the northeast, north, and northwest in a well defined convergent pattern. Maximum winds were estimated to be around 95 mph.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms moved across the state of Mississippi and produced damaging wind gusts, a few brief tornadoes, and heavy rainfall. Several swaths of wind produced significant damage.

Began near Divide (31.4402, -90.1343).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Lawrence County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1194642. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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