EF0 tornado — Yazoo County, Mississippi

EF0 tornado in Yazoo County, Mississippi

Tornado February 23, 2016 · Yazoo County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

This weak tornado touched down along Highway 16 southwest of Benton, uprooting some trees. It continued northeast and crossed Highway 433, causing trees to be uprooted in a concentric pattern with one falling on a house along Highway 433. The tornado continued northeast over Alton Circle and broke large limbs along Benton Boulevard. The tornado continued into Benton Country Club where a large tree was snapped and small limbs were broken along the path. The tornado lifted just southwest of Wildwood Road. Maximum winds with this tornado were 85 mph.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms occurred across the region in association with a potent low pressure system. Some of these storms produced tornadoes, strong damaging wind gusts, and hail.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 615885. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Yazoo County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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