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EF1 tornado in Alcorn County, Mississippi

Tornado February 23, 2019 · Alcorn County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

8.3 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

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

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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 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 damage was EF0/EF1 in Alcorn County with numerous trees knocked down. A home received moderate damage to mainly the roof while several manufactured homes were damaged. Several outbuildings and sheds were also damaged. Peak winds in Alcorn County were near 100 mph. Most of the path was in rural areas in Alcorn county. The tornado crossed into Tishomingo County.

The wider storm

A strong late winter cold front produced severe weather across portions of north Mississippi in the form of wind damage and one tornado during the afternoon of February 23rd.

Began near Jacinto (34.7899, -88.4084).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 806327. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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