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EF0 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

Tornado June 24, 2019 · Smith County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$15K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 spun up in a field just west of Highway 37 and traveled northeast about three quarters of mile before dissipating along Beaver Dam Road(SC 84). There were some small wooded areas where a couple clusters of trees were snapped or uprooted. There was other straight-line wind damage stretching southwest to Highway 35. The storm was about 50 yards at the widest and the strongest wind speeds were around 74 mph.

The wider storm

An organized line of showers and thunderstorms developed as a disturbance approached from the northwest and moved through the area. Some of these storms produced flash flooding, damaging winds, and 3 tornadoes.

Began near Center Ridge (31.9619, -89.4895).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Warren County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 834027. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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