EF0 tornado — Smith County, Mississippi

EF0 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

Tornado February 12, 2008 · Smith County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

This tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of county road 581 and 113. Several trees were snapped and uprooted along the path. Some shingles were removed from the Double Church building. Maximum winds were estimated around 80 mph.

The wider storm

A potent storm system dropped out of the Southern Plains on February 12th and pushed a squall line of thunderstorms through the region. This squall line produced widespread wind damage across portions of northeast Louisiana as well as central and southern Mississippi. The line of storms was very efficient in terms of producing severe wind gusts, many of which were between 75 and 90 mph. Thousands of trees were damaged with many falling on homes and taking down power lines. Five brief tornadoes also occurred with this line of storms.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 82166. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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