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EF0 tornado in De Soto County, Mississippi

Tornado February 5, 2008 · De Soto County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
2.6 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A tornado touched down near Old Highway 61 and damaged a farm building roof. The tornado tracked northeast for a little more than 2 miles, lifting along Norfolk Road. A pivot irrigation system was damaged and power poles were knocked down along Norfolk Road.

The wider storm

A strong low pressure system tracked from Northern Arkansas into Southern Missouri during the evening hours of February 5th, 2008. Supercells developed out ahead of the system during the late afternoon into the early evening. The storms produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. As the supercells moved east during the evening, a cold front moved into North Mississippi. A squall line developed along the front and produced another round of large hail and damaging winds. The front continued to push east into the overnight hours.

Began near Norfolk (34.9450, -90.2200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Lafayette CountyEF2 Shelby County 3 deadEF1 Lafayette CountyEF1 Alcorn CountyEF0 Panola CountyEF0 Tippah CountyEF0 Tippah County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 82406. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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