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EF0 tornado in Clay County, Mississippi

Tornado December 28, 2024 · Clay County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
4.6 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 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.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Tibbee (33.5221, -88.5789).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

35 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Franklin CountyEF2 Jasper CountyEF1 Rankin CountyEF1 Copiah CountyEF1 Claiborne CountyEF1 East Carroll ParishEF1 Jefferson CountyEF1 Lincoln CountyEF1 Jefferson CountyEF1 Warren CountyEF1 Lincoln CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Simpson CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Yazoo CountyEF1 Copiah CountyEF1 Yazoo CountyEF1 Simpson CountyEF1 Smith CountyEF1 Newton CountyEF1 Newton CountyEF1 Jasper CountyEF1 Oktibbeha CountyEF1 Clarke CountyEF1 Lauderdale CountyEF1 Lauderdale CountyEF1 Clarke CountyEF1 Copiah CountyEF1 Jefferson Davis CountyEF1 Smith Countyand 5 more

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1227911. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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