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EF0 tornado in Jones County, Mississippi

Tornado April 14, 2007 · Jones County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 brief tornado touchdown was witnessed in rural western Jones County.

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 Oak Bowery (31.6049, -89.3572).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Forrest County EF0 Marion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 23103. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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