EF0 Tornado — Clay, Mississippi

2024-12-28 · near Tibbee, Clay, Mississippi

Event narrative

This tornado began near the Lowndes County line where it snapped several softwood trees. As it continued to track northeast, it encountered neighborhood streets, where it damaged the roof of a mobile home and a porch, as well as uprooted hardwood trees and blew down a fence. It continued to leave a corridor of tree damage before it dissipated just past Waverly Road. The maximum wind speed was 85 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 1227911. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.