EF0 Tornado — Lincoln, Mississippi

2024-12-28 · near Vaughn, Lincoln, Mississippi

Event narrative

This tornado touched down near the community of Oldenburg where it broke small branches and snapped weak tree tops. Further along its path, it intensified to an EF-1 as it did extensive tree damage in a concentrated corridor. Many softwood trees were snapped and large trees were uprooted. Power poles were also snapped, including one with a damaged cross bar. The tornado continued eastward into the community of Shucktown, where a concentrated corridor of tree damage was evident. As the tornado continued along its path, it did additional minor tree damage as it crossed into Lincoln County west of Toy Drive. Just before dissipating near Paxton Road, this tornado likely encountered the track of the EF-3 McCall Creek tornado. Its maximum wind speed was 110 mph.

Wider weather episode

On December 28th, an outbreak of severe weather took place. Initially, a few isolated supercells storms developed and produced some tornadoes. As this occurred, a line of storms also developed and eventually pushed eastward across our region. Widespread damaging winds occurred with the line along with numerous tornadoes. This particular convective system was extremely efficient at producing tornadoes. This resulted in a record number of tornadoes for the month of December. The total across our forecast area was 43. The previous December record was 24 back in 2022.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1226103. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.