EF1 tornado in Tishomingo County, Mississippi

Tornado March 24, 2020 · Tishomingo County, Mississippi

EF1

Rating

16.9 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

$1.5M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Tishomingo County → Colbert County, Alabama; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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 developed in western Tishomingo County and was intermittently on the ground as it moved through the Paden Overlook Area and crossed Mackeys Creek. More continuous damage occurred as the tornado crossed County Road 118 west of Tishomingo. As the tornado moved through the northern portions of Tishomingo, it caused substantial damage to a retail store. Several buildings in town suffered minor damage and trees were uprooted. As the tornado moved east, it damaged homes, storage buildings, mobile homes, and uprooted trees along County Roads 116, 116 Extended, 106, and State Highway 30. In total, 55 residential homes and four commercial buildings were damaged in Tishomingo Couty. Peak winds were estimated at 110 mph in Tishomingo County. The tornado crossed into Colbert County, Alabama, just north of the Natchez Trace Parkway.

The wider storm

A cold front moved across the Mid-South during the day on March 24, 2020. The cold front intercepted a moist and unstable airmass resulting in the development of thunderstorms across Northeast Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel. These thunderstorms gradually spread southeast into North Mississippi and intensified late in the afternoon. A tornado touched down in Tishomingo County, MS causing significant damage.

Began near Paden (34.6383, -88.2825).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 882072. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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