Wayne storm history

A powerful EF3 tornado occurred across Wayne County on the evening of February 12th. The tornado first touched down west of Pine Lane Ranch Road as an EF0 doing minor tree and structural damage. The tornado continued northeast, gradually widening and intensifying to EF1 intensity…

The tornado began in the forested area near Earl Pitts Rd before rapidly strengthening as it crossed highway 84. A single vehicle was rolled in a parking lot near highway 84 prior to the tornado destroying several newer chicken farm buildings. The tornado then continued north nor…

The tornado began just west of Chicora River Road near the Chicora community and quickly moved across the K-M Nursery. Several greenhouses at the nursery were damaged with several trees uprooted or snapped all around the nursery, producing EF-1 damage. The tornado moved east-nort…

The tornado began near the Jones/Wayne County line and moved to the northeast with sporadic tree damage along Strengthford Myrick Road and Maxcey Drive. The tornado began to intensify as it approached a farm on Sellers Cooley Drive. Several metal farm buildings were heavily damag…

The tornado began in a heavily forested area west of Elbert Mozingo Road and quickly traveled east across Elbert Mozingo Road causing extensive tree damage to a large pine tree stand. Almost all of the trees were snapped near the base suggesting upper bound damage indicator. The …

Tornado began west of Maynor Creek Road and south of Jim Pitts Road estimated by sentinel satellite imagery. Damage was then noted along Maynor Creek Road where several trees were uprooted and snapped. A swath of trees snapped along the path that may have been associated with a s…

A brief but strong EF1 tornado began in the forested area west of Duncan Hill Road. The tornado then quickly crossed Duncan Hill Road snapping and uprooting numerous softwood trees. Several trees fell on a home causing damage to the home. The tornado then continued into the woods…

The first of several tornadoes began 4 miles southwest of Woodwards at 8:43 PM CDT on March 30th, 2022. The tornado began off of Dubie Graham Drive where a house suffered moderate roof damage with shingles torn off and partial uplift of the roof deck. Several softwood trees were …

A very brief EF1 tornado began shortly after the first to the northeast towards Mack Hayes Drive at 8:45 PM CDT March 30th, 2022. This tornado uprooted and snapped multiple softwood trees with one or two landing on an adjacent home. A mobile home sustained some damage to its roof…

A 100 mph EF1 tornado tracked through northwestern Waynesboro on March 30th, 2022 at 8:47 PM CDT. The tornado began on Pine Oak Land Road as an EF0 where it uprooted several softwood trees. The tornado continued northeast with a fairly discontinuous path until it reached Glitter …

A brief EF1 tornado began at 8:55 PM CDT on March 30th, 2022 along County Lake Denham Road where it uprooted several softwood trees and resulted in minor roof damage to nearby homes. The tornado crossed Denham Community Road where it briefly intensified to remove half the roofing…

The tornado first touched down just west of Pleasant Grove Strengthford Road. The tornado continued northeast and quickly strengthened as it moved across Overstreet and Braze Overstreet Drive. At Braze Overstreet Drive, the tornado is estimated to have reached EF-2 intensity base…

The tornado started on Sunlight Church Road in Wayne County, MS just west of the Choctaw County line. The tornado moved into extreme southwest Choctaw County and produced high end EF-1 intensity damage on CR 2 where several chicken houses were heavily damaged and numerous softwoo…

The tornado formed near Eucutta Road and traveled northeast, lifting just east of Sugar Hill Road. The damage was confined to softwood and hardwood trees, some of which were uprooted and some that were snapped. Thanks to NWS Jackson for their assistance with this survey.