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F1 tornado in Jones County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2007 · Jones County, Mississippi

F1
Rating
1.2 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$75K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This brief tornado snapped and uprooted numerous trees with one tree down on a car. A storage building was destroyed and a single wide mobile home was pushed off its blocks. Additionally, roof damage occurred to a double wide mobile home and several power lines were blown down along the path.

The wider storm

During the evening of Jan 4th and early morning hours of Jan 5th, a potent storm system moved across the Lower Mississippi Valley. This system was dynamic enough to generate a line of thunderstorms across Central Mississippi. This line developed within a strongly sheared environment and evolved into a squall line with bowing segments. These bowing segments proved very efficient with respect to producing damaging wind gusts and six tornadoes. The squall line matured just east of Interstate 55 around 11 pm and raced east before exiting into Alabama around 3 am.

Began near Soso (31.7296, -89.2940).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Neshoba CountyF2 Kemper CountyF1 Newton CountyF1 Neshoba CountyF1 Noxubee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 6920. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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