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EF0 tornado in Simpson County, Mississippi

Tornado February 23, 2016 · Simpson County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$13K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 tornado started along Grubbs Hog Farm Road, uprooting trees and snapping large limbs off the tops of some trees. The tornado continued northeast into a wooded area. A few more trees were downed in the woods just northwest of Joseph Crawford Road before lifting near this location soon after. Estimated maximum winds were 80 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.

Began near Pokal (31.7717, -90.0531).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lamar County 1 dead EF1 Lincoln County EF1 Lamar County EF1 Pearl River County EF0 Yazoo County EF0 Forrest County EF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 615895. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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