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EF0 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

Tornado December 28, 2024 · Smith County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down just west of County Road 539 and crossed the road moving east. A few pine trees were downed in a narrow corridor along this road.

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 Raleigh (32.0727, -89.5866).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1252540. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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