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EF0 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

Tornado April 15, 2011 · Wayne County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

5.1 mi

Whole path

100 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 100 yards (0.06 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

The tornado continued northeast out of the State Line, Mississippi area. The National Weather Service Damage Survey Team observed a 100 yard wide path of trees snapped with some minor damage to to the roofing structure of a home. The tornado continued to the east crossing into Washington County, Alabama.

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 State Line (31.4360, -88.4640).

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 297847. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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