EF2 tornado in Tishomingo County, Mississippi

Tornado February 23, 2019 · Tishomingo County, Mississippi

EF2

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 EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 crossed from Alcorn County into Tishomingo County. The tornado reached maximum intensity of EF-2 just northwest of Burnsville near Highway 72 where several well built homes suffered significant damage. Peak winds were estimated at 115 mph. Otherwise the tornado tracked through rural areas knocking down trees. A home on County Road 294 suffered minor damage before the tornado lifted.

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 Leedy (34.8237, -88.3656).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 809551. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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