Tornado in Mississippi, January 13, 2013

Name: Tornado in Mississippi, January 13, 2013
Start: 2013-01-13T16:45
End: 2013-01-13T16:48
Location: Mississippi

January 13, 2013 · NWS LIX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A cold front moving across southeast Louisiana and south Mississippi triggered the development of several severe thunderstorms.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $40,000
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 cold front moving across southeast Louisiana and south Mississippi triggered the development of several severe thunderstorms.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 12, 5:19 PM CST, 23 hours 26 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Pearl River

When: January 13, 4:45 PM CST to 4:48 PM CST
Where: Pearl River County, 1.94 mi SE of Poplarville to 2 mi E of Poplarville
Rating: EF1
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 150 yd
Property damage: $40,000
Reported by: NWS Storm Survey
Coordinates: 30.812, -89.505

A storm survey confirmed a tornado touchdown. The tornado touched down on Progress Road just east of Interstate 59 and traveled approximately 1 mile. The path width was approximately 150 yards. Over one dozen hardwood and softwood trees were snapped, one of which severely damaged a pickup truck. A metal workshop building had significant roof damage in which half of it was removed. A trampoline was lifted and thrown approximately 200 yards. The damage was consistent with EF-1 intensity. Winds were estimated at 95 mph.

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

Every storm in Mississippi in 2013 Every state in 2013 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Mississippi, 2013 Warnings in Mississippi, January 2013

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 428702.