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EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

Tornado April 28, 2014 · Wayne County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

10.5 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.6M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Jones County → Wayne County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 NWS Storm Survey team found that a small weak tornado moved into northwest Wayne County from northeast Jones County. The tornado tracked from west to east at around 50 mph. The most significant damage occurred to a chicken farm and to a mobile home that was rolled off its foundation. A family of four were inside the mobile home at the time it was hit by the tornado and escaped with minor injuries.

The wider storm

A strong storm system brought record flooding along with severe thunderstorms that produced damaging winds and tornadoes to the region.

Began near Eucutta (31.7659, -88.9432).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 514046. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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