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EF0 tornado in Greene County, Mississippi

Tornado April 15, 2011 · Greene County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

5.1 mi

Whole path

80 yd

Path width

$312K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Greene County → Wayne County → Washington County, Alabama; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 80 yards (0.05 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

Several softwood trees twisted off at mid-section and some hardwood trees uprooted by a tornado along an 80 yard wide path. Tornado continued northeast into Wayne County.

The wider storm

Numerous supercell thunderstorms developed in the late morning through the evening hours across Mississippi and Alabama. A series of long track tornadic supercell thunderstorms impacted southeast Mississippi in the late morning through the afternoon hours...with another round of severe storms developing in the evening hours preceding a strong cold front.

Began near Kittrell (31.4290, -88.4730).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Washington County 4 dead EF0 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 297835. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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