EF0 tornado in Kemper County, Mississippi

This tornado touched down briefly about 6 miles west southwest of Porterville. Several trees were snapped and uprooted, a shed was destroyed and a wooden fence was knocked down. Minor damage also occurred to a church steeple. Maximum winds were around 85 mph.

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.