Tornado, Lee
- When
- April 8, 3:10 AM CST
- Where
- Lee County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 9 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.100, -88.820
Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 8, 1957
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Calhoun
- When
- April 8, 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Calhoun County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.970, -89.330
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes in Alabama, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, April 8, 1957
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 8, 1957
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, April 8, 1957
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, April 8, 1957
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10049860, 10049861.