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EF1 tornado in Itawamba County, Mississippi

Tornado November 5, 2018 · Itawamba County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

5.1 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

$500K

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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 developed near the bottoms of Twentymile Creek. As the tornado approached Highway 371 south of Kirkville, it uprooted and snapped trees and substantially damaged a metal garage building. After crossing Highway 371 the tornado continued to uproot and snap off numerous trees and caused minor damage to several mobile homes. The last damage observed was east of Ramey Road northeast before dissipating.

The wider storm

A potent late fall storm system generated several severe thunderstorms and a couple of tornadoes across North Mississippi during the late evening hours of November 5th.

Began near Ratliff (34.4039, -88.5193).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Lee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 790551. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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