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EF0 tornado in Rankin County, Mississippi

Tornado April 9, 2021 · Rankin County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
11.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$15K
Damage as recorded
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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

This tornado began just to the south of Gulde Shiloh Road where several large tree limbs were snapped. The tornado continued north crossing I-20 where it was documented via pictures and video by several storm chasers. The tornado continued to snap large tree branches while crossing US Highway 80 at the Pelahatchie Industrial Park. Additional large limbs were snapped along Lake Road with the tornado crossing County Lake and snapping more tree limbs in a neighborhood along the west shore of the lake. The tornado continued north through a wooded area before paralleling Highway 43. Large limbs were snapped along the highway with two trees uprooted in adjacent fields. The tornado quickly dissipated in a wooded area to the south of Rehobeth Road. Damage was intermittent at times, and it's possible that the tornado may have lifted several times along the primary damage path. Estimated peak winds were 75 mph.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed in association with a frontal system moving through the region. Some of these storms produced a few tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Shiloh (32.2509, -89.8439).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 956518. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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