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EF0 tornado in Noxubee County, Mississippi

Tornado March 25, 2021 · Noxubee County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
6.6 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Noxubee County → Pickens County, Alabama; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 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 tornado began in an open field south of Jack Spann Road, where it was observed and videoed as it developed and moved northeastward. The tornado continued into Pickens County, Alabama where it produced EF-1 damage. No damage was observed in Mississippi.

The wider storm

A volatile atmosphere was in place for the second time in two weeks, with potential for significant severe weather across portions of the Southeast United States. Vigorous wind shear as well as ample instability would combine to generate thunderstorms that had the potential for violent severe weather. Storms developed during the afternoon, bringing damaging winds and flash flooding to the region. However, the most significant severe weather would occur across the state line into Alabama.

Began near Cooksville (33.0135, -88.3517).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 956037. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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