EF1 tornado — Wayne County, Mississippi

EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

Tornado February 10, 2013 · Wayne County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

3.1 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

The tornado touched down near Mallie Bonner Road southwest

of the Denham area where it snapped a few pine trees. The tornado

strengthened quickly and widened to nearly 200 yards wide as it crossed

Denham Progress Road just north of Joe Taylor Road...destroying a single wide

mobile home...damaging the roofs of several wood frame homes...and snapping

or uprooting numerous large trees. The tornado quickly weakened and

dissipated as it crossed Joe Taylor Road. This tornado was produced by the

same supercell thunderstorm that produced the Clara tornado a few minutes

earlier.

The wider storm

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 435001. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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