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EF0 tornado in Copiah County, Mississippi

Tornado November 1, 2018 · Copiah County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
2.2 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
$100K
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

This tornado developed along a line of severe thunderstorms that progressed from southwest to northeast across Copiah County during the early morning hours. The tornado touched down along Mathis Road south of Crystal Springs. Here it blew down several small tree limbs. It moved northeast toward the intersection of Alford and Harmony roads where damage included large tree limbs downed and several trees snapped and uprooted. One tree fell onto a home along Harmony Road. The tornado lifted just east of Harmony Road. Maximum estimated winds were 75 mph.

The wider storm

A potent storm system for early Fall impacted the region and a line of showers and thunderstorms moved through the ArkLaMiss region ahead of a cold front. A rare combination of instability and wind shear was in place and storms produced tornadoes, along with damaging winds.

Began near Crystal Spgs (31.9408, -90.3438).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Adams CountyEF1 Claiborne County 1 deadEF1 Adams CountyEF1 Franklin CountyEF1 Yazoo CountyEF1 Franklin CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF1 Scott CountyEF1 Rankin CountyEF1 Smith CountyEF0 Hinds CountyEF0 Rankin CountyEF0 Winston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 785418. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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