Tropical Storm — Franklin, Mississippi

2020-10-09 to 2020-10-10 · Franklin, Mississippi

Event narrative

Scattered trees and power lines were blown down across the county, with several roads blocked by fallen trees. A peak wind gust of 47 mph was measured at the Bude RAWS site around 2:00 a.m. CDT. Rainfall amounts of 5 to 6 inches were measured in the county.

Wider weather episode

Hurricane Delta made landfall along the southwest Louisiana Gulf Coast around 5:00 p.m. CDT on October 9th and moved to the northeast across southwest and central Mississippi. Heavy rainfall saturated and loosened soils, allowing for many trees to be blown down even as the hurricane weakened into a tropical storm and then tropical depression. Some of the trees fell onto and damaged homes and power lines in the region. Strong winds continued into the morning of October 10th, and isolated damaging wind gusts occurred with the outer rain bands as far east as Jasper County. The greatest rainfall totals of around 5 to 7 inches were measured near the center of the storm's track in southwest Mississippi, with totals of 1 to 3 inches measured farther away from the storm's track. A brief EF-0 tornado developed from an outer rain band in Lincoln County on October 9th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 923993. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.