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EF0 tornado in Pontotoc County, Mississippi

Tornado November 5, 2018 · Pontotoc County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

10.4 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$3.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pontotoc County → Lee 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 developed in far eastern Pontotoc County along Lee Line Road. The tornado knocked down a few trees before moving into Lee County.

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 Chesterville (34.2601, -88.8283).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Itawamba County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 793689. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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