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EF0 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

Tornado November 1, 2018 · Smith County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
4.0 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Smith County → Scott 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

A line of severe thunderstorms produced a tornado, that moved from southwest to northeast, across rural northeast Smith County to across rural southeast Scott County. This tornado caused large tree limbs and trunks to snap. A large pine tree that snapped near its base, fell across County Road 551C and completely blocked the roadway. The maximum tornado width was 150 yards and the total path length was around 4.1 miles. The overall rating was EF1, which occurred in Scott County with a maximum wind speed of 88 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 Pineville (32.2155, -89.3714).

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 CountyEF0 Hinds CountyEF0 Copiah CountyEF0 Rankin CountyEF0 Winston County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 785551. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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