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F0 tornado in Leflore County, Mississippi

Tornado April 7, 2006 · Leflore County, Mississippi

F0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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 tornado was observed by trained storm spotters briefly touching down just west of Morgan City. The tornado remained over a rural area and that location could not be reached by storm survey teams.

The wider storm

Significant hail damaged occurred along the path of this third supercell thunderstorm to effect Leflore County during the afternoon and evening of April 7th. This storm moved along the exact path of supercell one, but was stronger and produced much more damage. A swath of hail from quarter to golf ball size occurred across the entire width of the county and a few larger stones, to hen egg size, occurred as the storm neared the Greenwood-Leflore County Airport. In addition to the large hail, a few locations received some wind damage and one brief tornado occurred.

Began near Morgan City (33.3833, -90.4167).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5499548. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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