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F1 tornado in Neshoba County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2007 · Neshoba County, Mississippi

F1
Rating
3.0 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
$200K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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 tornado quickly developed after the one which crossed from Newton County dissipated. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted along the path. Two homes were damaged which included roof and wall damage. Additionally, several outbuildings were damaged or destroyed.

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 (32.6241, -89.2283).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Neshoba CountyF2 Kemper CountyF1 Jones CountyF1 Newton CountyF1 Noxubee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 7377. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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