EF0 tornado — Tippah County, Mississippi

EF0 tornado in Tippah County, Mississippi

Tornado February 5, 2008 · Tippah County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

1.4 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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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

A weak tornado briefly touched down in the Lake Chautauqua area of western Tippah County. Two homes and two vehicles were damaged. Numerous trees were knocked down in the area.

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 86066. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Tippah County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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