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EF0 tornado in Bolivar County, Mississippi

Tornado October 9, 2009 · Bolivar County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

2.4 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$45K

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

A narrow path of primarily tree damage paralleled Highway 1 from just southwest of Benoit, through Benoit, to just northeast of town. A few homes in town suffered minor shingle damage or damage from limbs or trees falling on them. Additionally, a farm building and mobile home sustained some damage about 2 miles northeast of Benoit at the end of the tornado path. Maximum winds were around 75 mph.

The wider storm

A potent complex of thunderstorms raced across the northwest portion of the forecast area and brought a line severe storms to the Delta region. Several thunderstorms brought damaging winds to portions of southeast Arkansas, northeast Louisiana, and the Delta portion of Mississippi. A couple of tornadoes also occurred during this event with one causing a fatality in Wayside.

Began near Benoit (33.6449, -91.0168).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Washington County 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 197131. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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