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EF0 tornado in Rankin County, Mississippi

Tornado November 1, 2018 · Rankin County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
4.5 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$35K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The tornado began in the forest just west of the Rankin/Smith County line where it snapped some small pines in half along Beaver Trail. The tornado traveled northeast into Smith County and snapped some large limbs along Hwy 13 just south of Polkville. One of the limbs there fell on part of a mobile home and did some minor roof damage. As it traveled northeast, it tore the roof off of a metal shed on County Road 563 along with doing some more tree damage. It continued past Harrison Rd before dissipating back in the woods. The maximum tornado width was 300 yards and the total path length was around 4.5 miles. The overall rating was EF1, which occurred in Smith County with a maximum wind speed of 100 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 Rufus (32.1639, -89.7366).

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 Smith CountyEF0 Hinds CountyEF0 Copiah CountyEF0 Rankin CountyEF0 Winston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 785548. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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