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EF1 tornado in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

Tornado April 27, 2011 · Tallahatchie County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
27.7 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Tallahatchie County → Leflore County → Tallahatchie County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado touched down near Money Road outside of Philip and moved northeast. Many trees were snapped or uprooted. A fence was also blown over. The tornado continued northeast and crossed into Leflore County, Mississippi.

The wider storm

A stationary front remained draped across Southern Missouri into Western Kentucky from April 24th, 2011 into April 25th, 2011. A very warm and unstable atmosphere was in place across the Mid-South ahead of the front. A low pressure system developed along the front and interacted with the unstable environment which helped produce several rounds of severe storms into the evening of April 26th, 2011. As a result of the severe storms, the front sank south during the early morning hours of April 27th, 2011 as a secondary low pressure system developed along the front. As a result, another round of severe storms fired during the afternoon hours ahead of the low pressure center. Additional severe storms fired along the trailing cold front. Tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, flash flooding occurred as a result of the severe storms.

Began near Philipp (33.7408, -90.2436).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 301143. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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