EF1 Tornado — Lincoln, Mississippi

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

Event narrative

An EF-1 tornado touched down near Old Church Drive where it snapped and uprooted a few softwood trees. It continued to do minor tree damage up to Highway 550. Here, it crossed paths with the EF-3 McCall Creek tornado. It continued towards Jackson Liberty Drive near Loyd Star where it uprooted several trees. It then tracked further east and uprooted several more trees and dissipated near James Drive. Its maximum wind speed was 90 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 1226230. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.