EF1 tornado, Burns to Pineville, Mississippi, February 13, 2007

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 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.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 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.

7. 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.

Rating

EF1

Date

February 13, 2007

Touchdown

3:52 AM CST (09:52 UTC)

Lifted

3:57 AM CST (09:57 UTC)

On the ground

5 minutes

Path length

3.7 miles (6.0 km)

Path width

75 yards (69 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$300,000

County

Smith County

Touchdown point

32.144, -89.511

Lift-off point

32.147, -89.447

Record number

0702130352-01

During the early morning hours of February 13th, a line of strong and severe storms moved across southern and central Mississippi. This line produce hail, wind damage a two weak tornadoes as it moved across the area.

This weak tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 35 and County Road 504. One home had some roofing blown off, power poles were blown down and a few trees were snapped. The tornado tracked along the north side of Highway 504 downing many trees. When it crossed Highway 504 it uprooted and snapped a number of large pine trees, snapped two power poles and damaged a porch. The tornado then traced through forested land downing dozens of trees. It dissipated just before crossing Dixon Road where it caused minor roof damage to a chicken house.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

4 minutes of warning. NWS JAN issued a tornado warning for this county at 09:48 UTC, 4 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 10:15 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 08:43 UTC and running to 10:47 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 05:37 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Jackson/Thompson (JAN), 60 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 09:54 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.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2007 tornado in MississippiEvery tornado in Mississippi since 1950Warnings in force in Mississippi nowThe forecast where you are

20 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.