EF1 tornado in Yazoo County, Mississippi

This EF-1 tornado started just north of MS Highway 16 in Yazoo County. It uprooted and snapped trees as it approached the Linwood Community. While progressing through the Linwood Community, it caused damage to several structures including removing the entire tin roof from a home on Black Jack Road, damaging a mobile home on Vaughan Road, and damaging the awnings at the Linwood Gin. The tornado was responsible for a tree falling on a house on Pepper Wilson Road. It continued to cause damage on Bennett Road, before it dissipated prior to Interstate 55. The estimated wind speed with this tornado was 110 mph.

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.