F1 tornado — Noxubee County, Mississippi

F1 tornado in Noxubee County, Mississippi

Tornado January 5, 2007 · Noxubee County, Mississippi

Rating

3.7 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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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 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 downed numerous large trees and a few power lines along its path. One home suffered minor roof damage as it was located on the edge of 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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 7537. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F1 tornado in Noxubee County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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