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EF0 tornado in Harrison County, Mississippi

Tornado June 24, 2020 · Harrison County, Mississippi

EF0

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$20K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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

A National Weather Service Damage Assessment Team has surveyed the storm damage in Gulfport, MS. It has been determined the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado has been rated an EF-0 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Damage estimates were consistent with winds of 65 mph.

Several large hardwood tree limbs snapped and minor roof damage to several homes from US Highway 90 near the aquarium to the CSX railway near Henderson Avenue.

The wider storm

Two mesoscale cycloncic vortex systems (MCVs) produced several severe thunderstorms across the area from early morning through the mid afternoon hours of Wednesday June 24, 2020. There were several tornadoes reported with these severe thunderstorms as they moved across the area. The most significant tornadoes impacted the Baton Rouge area, the Salem area of Walthall County, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Began near Gulfport (30.3679, -89.0857).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Walthall County EF1 Jackson County EF1 Harrison County EF0 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 899309. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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