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EF1 tornado in Lincoln County, Mississippi

Tornado February 23, 2016 · Lincoln County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The tornado began just west-southwest of Shannon Drive in a wooded area where a few large trees were uprooted and a few tops of trees were snapped. As the tornado crossed Shannon Drive, many large trees were snapped and uprooted with one causing minor roof damage to a home. The tornado then crossed Magnolia Trail where a large limb was snapped and skirting was blown off of a mobile home into a pasture across the road. The tornado continued around 100 yards or so into the pasture where a feed house was damaged and tin was strewn around. The tornado lifted soon after in this pasture. Estimated maximum sustained winds were 90 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 Arlington (31.3955, -90.5334).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lamar County 1 deadEF1 Lamar CountyEF1 Pearl River CountyEF0 Yazoo CountyEF0 Simpson CountyEF0 Forrest CountyEF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 615896. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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