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EF0 tornado in Choctaw County, Mississippi

Tornado May 2, 2021 · Choctaw County, Mississippi

EF0
Rating
2.1 mi
Path length
60 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 60 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 brief EF0 tornado touched down in far northwest Choctaw County and crossed Pearson Road. Here some trees were blown down. Estimated winds were 80 mph.

The wider storm

An upper-level shortwave trough moved from East Texas across Arkansas during the afternoon of May 2nd. At the surface, a warm front associated with the system developed and lifted north across Mississippi. Severe thunderstorms developed along and south of the warm front through the afternoon and evening, producing several tornadoes and scattered wind damage extending from the southwestern and west-central Mississippi toward north-central and northeastern portions of the state.

Began near French Camp (33.4181, -89.4240).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Holmes CountyEF1 Issaquena CountyEF1 Holmes CountyEF1 Jefferson CountyEF1 Holmes CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF1 Attala CountyEF0 Yazoo CountyEF0 Leake County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 963708. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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