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EF1 tornado in Madison County, Mississippi

Tornado April 30, 2017 · Madison County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
6.0 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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 started just south of the Kearney Park community, where it moved northwest into the community downing several trees and causing minor structural damage to homes. It crossed Burnt Corn Creek and continued to cause damage along Virlilia Road before it lifted. The maximum wind speed with this tornado was 100 mph.

The wider storm

During the early morning hours of April 30th, a squall line of severe thunderstorms developed across central Louisiana and pushed eastward across the ArkLaMiss. The line intensified as it approached the Mississippi River and caused wind damage and tornadoes. As the convective system evolved into Mississippi, numerous tornadoes developed along the advancing line, with the most prolific damage occurring along the track of a large meso-scale convective vortex (MCV). This feature tracked roughly from Claiborne County through western Hinds/Madison, eastern Yazoo, eastern Holmes, southeastern Carroll, Montgomery, and northwestern Webster counties. This corridor is where the most significant damage occurred, as well as one fatality. Flash flooding, hail, and other wind damage occurred as these storms moved through.

Began near Flora (32.5864, -90.3199).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 690531. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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