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EF1 tornado in Jackson County, Mississippi

Tornado June 24, 2020 · Jackson County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
0.2 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 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

A National Weather Service Damage Assessment Team has surveyed the storm damage near Wookmarket, MS. It has been determined the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado has been rated an EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Damage estimates were consistent with winds of 100 mph.

A short track of damage was noted in the area of Big John Road and Krohn Lane. Most notable was a large hardwood tree uprooted along with several pine trees twisted and snapped.

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 North Biloxi Arpt (30.5075, -88.9405).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Walthall CountyEF1 Harrison CountyEF0 Harrison CountyEF0 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 899311. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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