EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

The tornado touched down in the southwest portions of Wayne County just south of Strickland Road and just west of Salem Road along Byrd Creek in the Desoto National Forest. The tornado quickly intensified to EF-1 strength as it crossed Shows Road where it damaged the roofs of 2 homes and snapped or uprooted numerous large trees. The tornado overturned camping trailers at a hunting camp off of Fire Road 726 and continued east northeast crossing Pine Grove Road. The tornado weakened to EF-0 strength as it crossed a large section of the Desoto National Forest and Highway 63 approximately 4 miles southwest of Clara where it produced minor damage to the roofs of a few homes...destroyed a few small outbuildings...and topped out trees in an 80 yard wide path. The tornado then quickly re-intensified as it moved across Hudson Town Road and Roy Shoemaker Drive where it widened to 200 yards...snapping numerous large tree pine trees...damaging the roof of one brick home and causing damage to a barn. The tornado crossed Buckatunna Clara Road where it snapped numerous pine trees and caused major damage to 3 homes when pine trees fell on them. The tornado weakened and dissipated near Hutcherson Hutto Road. The storm that produced this tornado also had severe downburst winds on the rear flank downdraft. The rear flank downdraft with this storm uprooted or snapped a wide swath of trees south of the main tornado track.

Thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front. Some of the thunderstorms became severe with damaging winds and tornadoes. The storms also produced very heavy rain which caused flash flooding.