EF0 tornado — Panola County, Mississippi

EF0 tornado in Panola County, Mississippi

Tornado February 5, 2008 · Panola County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$12K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

An EF-0 tornado briefly touched down in the Coles Point community, just south of Sardis Lake. The tornado flipped a tractor over, destroyed a shed, and caused minor tree damage.

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 82426. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Panola County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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