TornadoLookup

Home / Mississippi / Scott

F1 tornado in Scott County, Mississippi

Tornado April 6, 2005 · Scott County, Mississippi

F1
Rating
6.0 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$700K
Damage as recorded
$50K
Crop damage
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This was the second tornado to develop from a "Cyclic Supercell" thunderstorm. This tornado touched down just to the S of Leesburg on W E Franklin Road and tracked NE into Scott county where it dissipated 2 miles NW of Forkville. Several hundred trees were snapped or uprooted along the path. A few homes sustained roof damage and one chicken house was destroyed. The total path length across Rankin and Scott counties was 7 miles.

Began near Branch (31.3833, -89.9000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Rankin CountyF1 Leake CountyF1 Smith CountyF1 Smith CountyF1 Rankin CountyF1 Lawrence CountyF1 Simpson CountyF1 Clarke CountyF0 Covington CountyF0 Smith CountyF0 Madison CountyF0 Lincoln County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5451191. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

Tornadoes near your address

See every tornado that passed near a place you know, measured to its path.