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EF0 tornado in Marion County, Mississippi

Tornado February 20, 2014 · Marion County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

Multiple trees were downed or snapped along Highway 98 at Friendship Church Road in a manner consistent with tornadic damage. Maximum wind speeds were estimated at 75 mph.

The wider storm

During the afternoon of the 20th and into the early morning hours of the 21st, a large part of the central United States experienced severe weather. Across central Mississippi, severe weather was more sporadic, but portions of the area did see the brunt of the strongest activity.

Portions of the area experienced a combination of damaging winds, hail, a few tornadoes and flash flooding. Damaging winds were more common along the US Highway 82 corridor as the line of storms pushed east. Three weak tornadoes occurred, two in Jones County and the other in Marion County. The most impactful severe weather was from flash flooding as three to six inches of rain fell within a swath extending from Brookhaven to Laurel to Hattiesburg to Columbia. Multiple roads flooded as a result, with the worst flooding outside of West Hattiesburg in Lamar County. Water rescues took place in this area, and about 20 homes had significant water in them.

Began near Columbia (31.2530, -89.7700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Jones County EF0 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 493108. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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