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EF0 tornado in Sharkey County, Mississippi

Tornado March 3, 2008 · Sharkey County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
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

This tornado was spotted a few mile east southeast of Cary as it briefly touched down in an open field.

The wider storm

A strong upper level system and evolving surface low moved across the region late on March 3rd. These features combined to bring a potent weather system to the area and a healthy round of severe thunderstorms from late afternoon through around midnight. It was a line of thunderstorms which brought most of the severe weather, but a few supercells did occur just ahead of the line. Ten tornadoes occurred, two of which were strong (EF-2), along with a good deal of wind damage as the line pushed east across Mississippi.

Began near Issaquena (32.7766, -90.8672).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Sharkey CountyEF2 Clarke CountyEF1 Simpson CountyEF1 Simpson CountyEF1 Marion CountyEF1 Scott CountyEF1 Scott CountyEF1 Forrest CountyEF0 Kemper County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 87985. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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