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F0 tornado in Neshoba County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2007 · Neshoba County, Mississippi

Rating

4.9 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$2.2M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Newton County → Neshoba County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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 tornado moved into Neshoba County from Newton County near the Neville Community. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. Three homes were damaged with one home having the roof taken off and blown several hundred feet away. Additionally, four chicken houses were destroyed just inside Neshoba County. Total path length across both Newton and Neshoba Counties was 5.3 miles.

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 Neville (32.5800, -89.2400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Neshoba County F2 Kemper County F1 Jones County F1 Neshoba County F1 Noxubee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 7292. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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