EF1 Tornado — Yazoo, Mississippi

2024-12-28 · near Berryville, Yazoo, Mississippi

Event narrative

This tornado started on Campbell Road where it broke large branches. It intensified to an EF-1 as it approached HWY 16, where it uprooted hardwood trees, rolled a shed, and damaged a shingle roof. Further along its path, it damaged a carport and another shed, and blew out the underskirt of a mobile home. It continued to do extensive tree damage, with several uproots of hardwood trees and snapped pines. The tree damage continued all the way to I-55 where it dissipated. The maximum wind speed was 95 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 1226246. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.