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EF2 tornado in Monroe County, Mississippi

Tornado April 13, 2019 · Monroe County, Mississippi

EF2

Rating

24.5 mi

Whole path

800 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$3.5M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 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

Tornado occurred mostly in forested areas. Several homes received primarily roof damage. Several transmission line towers were destroyed approximately 2 miles north of Highway 278. Peak winds were estimated near 115 mph.

The wider storm

A surface wave along a slow moving cold front produced several facets of severe weather, including flooding, damaging winds and tornadoes across northern Mississippi during the evening of April 13th.

Began near Greenwood Spgs (33.8931, -88.3215).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 815470. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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