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EF1 tornado in Holmes County, Mississippi

Tornado July 9, 2024 · Holmes County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

85 yd

Path width

$15K

Crop damage

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 85 yards (0.05 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 brief tornado touched down near County Line Road and Race Track Road. Several trees were uprooted along with large limbs broken along the short path. A tornadic debris signature (TDS) was also noted on radar.

The wider storm

During the overnight hours of July 8th into the morning of the 9th, the remnants of Beryl moved across the northwest parts of the area. A brief tornado touched down in NE Holmes County and damaged some timber.

Began near Edsville (33.2260, -89.8325).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1205094. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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