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EF0 tornado in Newton County, Mississippi

Tornado March 3, 2008 · Newton County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

4.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$1.2M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Scott County → Newton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 was the continuation of the Lake tornado. It had just moved into Newton County before dissipating. Minimal tree damage occurred to a handful of trees as it dissipated. Total path length was 4 miles with a total rating of EF-1.

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 Hazel (32.3551, -89.3226).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Sharkey County EF2 Clarke County EF1 Simpson County EF1 Simpson County EF1 Marion County EF1 Scott County EF1 Forrest County EF0 Sharkey County EF0 Kemper County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 88301. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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