EF3 Tornado — Itawamba, Mississippi

2014-04-28 · near Centerville, Itawamba, Mississippi

Event narrative

A tornado moved from Lee County into Northwest Itawamba County. The tornado tracked across rural parts of Itawamba County before moving into Prentiss County. Ten homes were destroyed in Itawamba County while 29 homes suffered major damage. 107 other homes had minor damage. 14 mobile homes were destroyed and 17 had major damage. 30 other mobile homes suffered minor damage.

Wider weather episode

A warm front lifted slowly through North Mississippi during the early evening of April 27, 2014. The airmass south of the warm front was very unstable and a couple of supercells developed along the warm front over Northwest Mississippi with damaging winds and large hail. The warm front lifted north of North Mississippi leaving a very unstable airmass behind. A sutble upper level disturbance triggered thunderstorm developoment during the early morning hours of April 28, 2014. These thunderstorms eventually developed into a mesoscale convective system that tracked across much of Northwest Mississippi with a few reports of large hail and damaging winds. Later that same day an approaching cold front combined with a potent upper level disturbance to trigger supercells across Northeast Mississippi. This resulted in a strong tornado that tracked near Tupelo, Mississippi and several reports of large hail.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 515210. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.