Tornado, Amite
- When
- November 30, 4:00 PM CST to 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Amite County, Mc Elveen to 3 mi N of Mc Elveen
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.170, -90.650
Tornado in Mississippi, November 30, 1996
A tornado touched down several times along an intermittent path damaging four chicken houses and cutting a swatch through a heavily wooded area.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LIX wrote it up.
A tornado touched down several times along an intermittent path damaging four chicken houses and cutting a swatch through a heavily wooded area.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornado in Louisiana, November 30, 1996
- Tornado in Florida, November 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Texas, November 30, 1996
- Tornado in Louisiana, November 30, 1996
- Tornado in Alabama, November 30, 1996
- Tornado in Texas, November 30, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, November 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, November 30, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, November 30, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Washington, November 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, November 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, November 30, 1996
More
Every storm in Mississippi in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Mississippi, 1996Warnings in Mississippi, November 1996
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: 5579315.