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EF1 tornado in Greene County, Mississippi

Tornado February 10, 2020 · Greene County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
1.2 mi
Path length
200 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The tornado touched down just east of Old Ditch Rd

causing numerous snapped softwood pines. As the tornado progressed

northeast, width increased to approximately 200 yards with a clear

convergent pattern of snapped softwoods. As the tornado approached

Piave Church Rd, it appears to have weakened causing several uprooted

hardwoods and a few snapped to uprooted softwoods. A few homes had

minor roof damage likely by the outer circulation and RFD. The tornado

shortly lifted after crossing Piave Church Rd but not before uprooting

a couple more hardwoods and removing a tin roof from a mobile home porch.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed ahead of an approaching cold front. These storms became strong to severe and produced damaging winds and a brief tornado in southeast Mississippi.

Began near Piave (31.4082, -88.7851).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 878601. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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