Tornadoes · United States · Mississippi · 2005
F0 tornado, Utica to Hubbard, Mississippi, September 24, 2005
From Utica to Hubbard, this F0 tornado ran 0.5 miles across Hinds County on September 24, 2005, touching down at 11:20 AM CDT and reaching 50 yards wide. It killed nobody.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.
The record
- Rating
- F0
- Date
- September 24, 2005
- Touchdown
- 11:20 AM CDT (16:20 UTC)
- Path length
- 0.5 miles (0.8 km)
- Path width
- 50 yards (46 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- County
- Hinds County
- Touchdown point
- 32.220, -90.730
- Lift-off point
- 32.220, -90.750
- Record number
- 1175
What the Weather Service recorded
This tornado touched down in extreme West-Central Hinds county very near the Claiborne county line. This area can best be described as the area where Hinds, Claiborne and Warren county meet in the Big Black River bottom just south of Highway 27. The tornado moved north-northwest and crossed the extreme northeast corner of Claiborne county before moving into Warren county. The tornado moved into Warren county, just south of Highway 27, then crossed Highway 27 before dissipating. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The total path length across the 3 counties was 3 miles.
This weak tornado touched down just Northwest of Utica and crossed Cayuga Road. Several trees were snapped with a few uprooted.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jackson, MS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at Sep 24, 5:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 5:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 24, 10:39 AM CDT, 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS 1039 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>066-072>074- 251539- ADAMS-ASHLEY-ATTALA-BOLIVAR-CARROLL-CATAHOULA-CHICOT-CHOCTAW- CLAIBORNE-CLARKE-CLAY-CONCORDIA-COPIAH-COVINGTON-EAST CARROLL- FORREST-FRANKLIN LA-FRANKLIN MS-GRENADA-HINDS-HOLMES-HUMPHREYS- ISSAQUENA-JASPER-JEFFERSON-JEFFERSON DAVIS-JONES-KEMPER-LAMAR- LAUDERDALE-LAWRENCE-LEAKE-LEFLORE-LINCOLN-LOWNDES-MADISON LA- MADISON MS-MARION-MONTGOMERY-MOREHOUSE-NESHOBA-NEWTON-NOXUBEE- OKTIBBEHA-RANKIN-RICHLAND-SCOTT-SHARKEY-SIMPSON-SMITH-SUNFLOWER- TENSAS-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WEST CARROLL-WINSTON-YAZOO- 1039 AM CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEAST LOUISIANA...AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...THUNDERSTORMS... SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORNADOES AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH WILL BE LIKELY TODAY ACROSS NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...MAINLY WEST OF A LINE FROM CANTON...TO RALEIGH...TO THE LAUREL/HATTIESBURG AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE MORE ISOLATED ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS...NORTHERN AND EASTERN MISSISSIPPI.I HURRICANE RITA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHWARD ALONG THE SABINE RIVER VALLEY TODAY. AS IT DOES...STRONG WIND SHEAR IN LOWER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE STORM WILL SPREAD INTO EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING STRONG ROTATION HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING...AND IN ADDITION A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA INTO THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY WILL MOVE NORTH INTO NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI THIS AFTERNOON. DUE TO THE STRONG WIND SHEAR IN THE ATMOSPHERE...SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE TORNADOES AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANES OF THE SIZE AND INTENSITY OF RITA CAN BE STRONG...AND CONDITIONS APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR AT LEAST A FEW STRONG TORNADOES TODAY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH SOMEWHAT AFTER 9 PM...BUT A RISK OF ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION...ESPECIALLY WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR. ...FLOODING... ALTHOUGH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE ENTIRE OUTLOOK AREA...IT MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI. WITH PLENTY OF TROPICAL MOISTURE FLOWING INTO THE REGION...PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED AS RAIN BANDS FROM HURRICANE RITA REPEATEDLY MOVE INTO THE AREA. RAINFALL TOTALS THROUGH SUNDAY MAY REACH 4 TO 8 INCHES WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IN SHORT PERIODS OF TIME ALONG WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE SAME AREAS MAY LEAD TO RAPID RUN OFF AND FLASH FLOODING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR LOCATIONS ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BASTROP TO CLAYTON LOUISIANA TO BUDE MISSISSIPPI. HEAVY RAIN AND PONDING CAN BE EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF THE AREA. RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE...CAUSING WATER TO ACCUMULATE ON ROADWAYS AND IN OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. ...NON PRECIPITATION... WINDS WILL INCREASE TODAY FOR MUCH OF MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHEAST ARKANSAS AND NORTHEAST LOUISIANA. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH CAN EXPECTED OVER A WIDE AREA WEST OF A LAUREL TO WINONA LINE. AS HURRICANE RITA MOVES FARTHER NORTH...STRONG WINDS WILL SPREAD NORTH AND EAST WITH SUSTAINED WINDS OF NEAR 30 MPH...AND GUSTS UP TO AROUND 50 MPH OVER EAST CENTRAL LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...ALONG AND SOUTHWEST OF A BROOKHAVEN TO VICKSBURG TO BASTROP LINE. WINDS HAVE ALREADY BEEN QUITE GUSTY OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING. JACKSON HAS REPORTED A PEAK SUSTAINED WIND OF 26 MPH...WITH A PEAK GUST OF 36 MPH...WHILE NATCHEZ-ADAMS CIVIL DEFENSE HAS REPORTED A GUST TO 47 MPH. WINDS WILL PROBABLY INCREASE A BIT MORE INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON...BEFORE DIMINISHING SOMEWHAT THIS EVENING AS RITA WEAKENS. A COMBINATION OF WET GROUND OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI...AND DAMAGED TREES AND LIMBS FROM KATRINA OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...WILL LIKELY LEAD TO DOWNED TREES AND LIMBS FROM THESE WINDS. SOME OF THESE LIMBS AND TREES MAY COME DOWN ON POWERLINES...AND POWER OUTAGES HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED OVER PARTS OF THE AREA. BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR DEAD LIMBS THAT COULD FALL IF YOU ARE VENTURING OUTDOORS TODAY. ...FIRE DANGER... AN ELEVATED FIRE DANGER DUE TO NUMEROUS DOWNED TREES AND LIMBS CONTINUES TO EXIST ACCORDING TO THE MISSISSIPPI FORESTRY COMMISSION...PARTICULARLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WHERE NUMEROUS BURN BANS ARE IN EFFECT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... ...DAYS TWO AND THREE...SUNDAY AND MONDAY... THE RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY...AS SPIRAL BANDS FROM RITA MOVE SLOWLY ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. THE MAIN RISK WILL CONTINUE TO BE FOR TORNADOES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE BANDS. THE MAGNITUDE OF THE RISK ON SUNDAY WILL BE DEPENDENT UPON HOW RAPIDLY RITA WEAKENS. AT THE PRESENT TIME...THE GREATEST RISK LOOKS TO BE ALONG THE INTERSTATE 55 CORRIDOR AS STEADY RAINS PERSIST TO THE WEST. ISOLATED STORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EASTERN MISSISSIPPI MAINLY DURING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR INCREASES DURING THE DAYTIME HEATING. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL COVER MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA SUNDAY AND PERSIST ALL THE WAY INTO MONDAY MORNING. TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 6 TO 10 INCHES MAY BE COMMON OVER NORTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI BY MONDAY MORNING. ...DAYS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE RITA WILL CONTINUE TO HANG AROUND THE REGION THROUGH THE FIRST PART OF THE WORK WEEK...PRODUCING INTERMITTENT AND OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. ADDITIONAL RAIN AMOUNTS DURING THIS TIME OF A FEW INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN ISOLATED SPOTS...WHICH COULD EXACERBATE ANY MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS WHICH MAY OCCUR OVER THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... THE ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTER GROUPS...AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...IN SUPPORT OF SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS...WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THROUGH THE WEEKEND...ESPECIALLY FOR THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. OTHERWISE...ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED NEXT MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/JAN. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 24, 5:41 AM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>The surface observations
Vicksburg / Tallulah (TVR), 31 km from the path, in the two hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Temp (°F) | Dew point (°F) | Wind | Gust (kt) | Pressure (mb) | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 16:19 UTC.
Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track
Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.
This ground now
The live radar over the trackEvery 2005 tornado in MississippiEvery tornado in Mississippi since 1950Warnings in force in Mississippi nowThe forecast where you are
The other tornadoes of September 24, 2005
51 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 24 | 9:15 AM CDT | F0 | Franklin, MS | 0.5 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 11:14 AM CDT | F0 | Hinds, MS | 2.0 | 75 | |||
| September 24 | 11:21 AM CDT | F1 | Warren, MS | 1.8 | 75 | |||
| September 24 | 12:40 PM CDT | F1 | Ashley, AR | 7.0 | 100 | $100,000 | ||
| September 24 | 12:51 PM CDT | F1 | Chicot, AR | 1.0 | 100 | $300,000 | ||
| September 24 | 12:54 PM CDT | F1 | Drew, AR | 4.8 | 40 | |||
| September 24 | 1:30 PM CDT | F0 | Hinds, MS | 0.7 | 50 | |||
| September 24 | 2:10 PM CDT | F2 | Washington, MS | 2.0 | 300 | $680,000 | ||
| September 24 | 2:45 PM CDT | F0 | Desha, AR | 11.0 | 40 | |||
| September 24 | 3:12 PM CDT | F0 | Washington, MS | 0.5 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 3:13 PM CDT | F0 | Bolivar, MS | 3.5 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 3:19 PM CDT | F0 | Arkansas, AR | 7.0 | 40 | |||
| September 24 | 3:30 PM CDT | F0 | Jefferson, AR | 1.5 | 40 | |||
| September 24 | 3:35 PM CDT | F0 | Humphreys, MS | 4.0 | 50 | $10,000 | ||
| September 24 | 4:18 PM CDT | F1 | Humphreys, MS | 1.5 | 75 | $150,000 | ||
| September 24 | 4:25 PM CDT | F1 | Humphreys, MS | 3.5 | 100 | 1 | 2 | $50,000 |
| September 24 | 4:34 PM CDT | F2 | Humphreys, MS | 18.0 | 800 | 3 | $2.5 million | |
| September 24 | 4:35 PM CDT | F0 | Bolivar, MS | 1.0 | 50 | $30,000 | ||
| September 24 | 4:40 PM CDT | F2 | Lonoke, AR | 7.2 | 100 | 5 | ||
| September 24 | 4:40 PM CDT | F0 | Sunflower, MS | 1.0 | 50 | |||
| September 24 | 5:02 PM CDT | F1 | Sunflower, MS | 1.0 | 100 | $20,000 | ||
| September 24 | 5:03 PM CDT | F1 | Bolivar, MS | 9.0 | 200 | $400,000 | ||
| September 24 | 5:14 PM CDT | F0 | East Carroll Parish, LA | 1.0 | 50 | |||
| September 24 | 5:20 PM CDT | F1 | Leflore, MS | 1.0 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 5:35 PM CDT | F0 | Sunflower, MS | 1.0 | 100 | $10,000 | ||
| September 24 | 5:37 PM CDT | F2 | Bolivar, MS | 12.0 | 200 | $800,000 | ||
| September 24 | 5:54 PM CDT | F1 | Chicot, AR | 1.0 | 75 | $60,000 | ||
| September 24 | 5:56 PM CDT | F0 | Leflore, MS | 2.0 | 50 | |||
| September 24 | 5:59 PM CDT | F1 | Lonoke, AR | 1.5 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 6:00 PM CDT | F2 | Leflore, MS | 9.0 | 250 | |||
| September 24 | 6:01 PM CDT | F1 | Pulaski, AR | 4.2 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 6:09 PM CDT | F1 | Pulaski, AR | 6.0 | 80 | |||
| September 24 | 6:17 PM CDT | F1 | Leflore, MS | 1.0 | 75 | $200,000 | ||
| September 24 | 6:18 PM CDT | F1 | Faulkner, AR | 2.0 | 80 | |||
| September 24 | 6:25 PM CDT | F0 | Holmes, MS | 1.0 | 50 | $10,000 | ||
| September 24 | 6:29 PM CDT | F1 | Chicot, AR | 2.0 | 75 | $150,000 | ||
| September 24 | 6:40 PM CDT | F0 | Carroll, MS | 3.0 | 75 | |||
| September 24 | 6:48 PM CDT | F2 | Conway, AR | 1.0 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 6:55 PM CDT | F0 | Franklin, MS | 2.0 | 75 | |||
| September 24 | 7:33 PM CDT | F2 | White, AR | 9.0 | 150 | |||
| September 24 | 7:45 PM CDT | F2 | Newton, MS | 0.8 | 100 | $1.0 million | ||
| September 24 | 7:55 PM CDT | F0 | Cleburne, AR | 0.6 | 40 | |||
| September 24 | 7:56 PM CDT | F0 | Concordia Parish, LA | 2.0 | 75 | $70,000 | ||
| September 24 | 8:05 PM CDT | F1 | Cleburne, AR | 0.7 | 50 | |||
| September 24 | 8:37 PM CDT | F0 | Sharkey, MS | 1.0 | 100 | |||
| September 24 | 8:40 PM CDT | F1 | Sharkey, MS | 3.0 | 100 | $400,000 | ||
| September 24 | 9:21 PM CDT | F1 | Arkansas, AR | 7.0 | 40 | |||
| September 24 | 10:06 PM CDT | F1 | Catahoula Parish, LA | 9.0 | 50 | $200,000 | ||
| September 24 | 12:40 AM CDT | F0 | Bolivar, MS | 1.0 | 50 | $10,000 | ||
| September 24 | 12:42 AM CDT | F0 | Concordia Parish, LA | 1.0 | 75 | |||
| September 24 | 12:44 AM CDT | F3 | Concordia Parish, LA | 14.0 | 100 | 3 | $1.1 million |
What this means
Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.