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EF3 tornado in Monroe County, Mississippi
Tornado April 27, 2011 · Monroe County, Mississippi
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Montgomery County → Choctaw County → Choctaw County → Choctaw County → Webster County → Clay County → Chickasaw County → Monroe County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,760 yards (1.00 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
An EF-1 tornado moved northeast out of Chickasaw County into Monroe County. At least 31 homes and businesses sustained minor damage. Three injuries occurred in the Wren and New Wren area. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped along the path. Power lines were also knocked down as well.
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 Gibson (33.9036, -88.7203).
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 301496. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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