EF0 tornado — Tate County, Mississippi

EF0 tornado in Tate County, Mississippi

Tornado December 21, 2013 · Tate County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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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

A tornado touched down near the corner of Mays Road and Wakefield Road in Eastern Tate County. Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. Many homes had minor roof damage and a church had minor roof damage. Several power lines were downed. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.

The wider storm

A potent upper level disturbance moved out of the East Texas while a surface low pressure system tracked from Arkansas along a stalled front. Moist and unstable air moved into the Mid-South in advance of the stalled front and the developing low pressure system. As a result a line of showers and thunderstorms moved across North Mississippi during the evening hours of December 21st. Many storms were severe with reports of damaging winds and a few tornadoes.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 488383. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Tate County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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