EF1 tornado in Warren County, Mississippi

The tornado began just south of Interstate 20 around Delta, LA and traveled northeast to cross the Mississippi River on the northern outskirts of Vicksburg. The tornado widened to a maximum path width of 440 yards as it entered Warren County. It produced EF-1 rated damage along its path including numerous snapped hardwood trees, blown down power lines, damage to a garage door of a building along Haining Road, and broken power poles along North Washington Street north of Watersville. The tornado lifted just north of this location. A peak wind speed of 100 mph was estimated based on surveyed damage. A debris signature was observed by NWS radar and a University of Louisiana at Monroe research radar along the path of this tornado. Total path length was 9.2 miles.

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.