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EF2 tornado in Noxubee County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2025 · Noxubee County, Mississippi

EF2

Rating

3.4 mi

Path length

500 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 started just west of Highway 45 north of Brooksville where it snapped a few trees. The tornado continued northeast across Highway 45 and snapped and uprooted numerous trees, along with 5 power poles. The tornado was at its strongest at this point. The tornado continued northeast where it snapped a few more trees and also overturned a Pivot. The tornado ended just north of Dwelling Place Road. The maximum wind speed was 115 mph.

The wider storm

A potent weather system moved across the region on January 5th and produced a round of severe storms across the region into the early morning hours of the 6th. These storms produced damaging winds and tornadoes.

Began near Brooksville (33.2445, -88.5887).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Rankin County EF1 Winston County EF1 Jefferson Davis County EF1 Smith County EF0 Lawrence County EF0 Jefferson Davis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1235407. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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