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EF0 tornado in Marion County, Mississippi

Tornado April 14, 2007 · Marion County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 weak tornado briefly touched down in the Pinebur Community off County Line Road just on the Marion County side. Damaged consisted of some trees snapped and many large limbs blown down.

The wider storm

A potent upper level disturbance lifted northeast across the Southern Plains and into the Ohio Valley. As this system evolved and tracked northeast, severe weather broke out across a large portion of the region between April 13th and 14th. Many reports of large hail, damaging winds and a few isolated tornadoes were received.

Began near Pinebur (31.1600, -89.7200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Forrest County EF0 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 23096. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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