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EF0 tornado in Wayne County, Mississippi

Tornado October 7, 2017 · Wayne County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

A brief EF-0 tornado initially touched down on Jo Land Drive, moved west northwest, and lifted just north of County Farm Road and Old Highway 145. Three homes experienced

roof damage. Some trees were also uprooted.

The wider storm

Hurricane Nate quickly moved north northwest out of the northwest Caribbean Sea and across the Gulf of Mexico, making landfall near Biloxi, MS just after midnight on October 8th as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum winds of 85 mph. Nate quickly weakened as it moved inland across inland southeast Mississippi and southwest Alabama and was downgraded to a tropical depression over central Alabama by 10am CDT on October 8th.

The remnant eastern eyewall of Nate moved across George and Greene Counties between midnight and 3am. Tropical storm force winds, with maximum gusts estimated at 60 to 70 mph, resulted in numerous downed trees and power lines in George County. Several homes reported minor roof and shingle damage. One mobile was destroyed due to a tree falling on it. A total of 7,000 power outages were reported. Further north in Greene and Wayne Counties, scattered downed trees and power lines were reported.

The fast movement of Nate resulted in limited, if any, impacts from flooding. 2 to 5 inches of rain was reported across inland southeast Mississippi.

One EF-0 tornado was reported in Wayne County.

Began near Waynesboro Muni Arpt (31.6519, -88.6079).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 724810. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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