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EF2 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

Tornado April 28, 2014 · Wayne County, Mississippi

EF2

Rating

9.2 mi

Path length

250 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 Survey team found evidence of a strong tornado that tracked across north central and northeast Wayne County. The tornado tracked from the west to the east at around 50 mph. A single family home located on Waller Ridge Road and several single family homes and mobile homes on Spinkes Hayes Road were destroyed. Minor to moderate damage occurred to numerous other residences from Spinkes Hayes Road to Matherville Diamond Road.

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 Hiwannee (31.7579, -88.7559).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Wayne County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 514053. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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