EF0 tornado, Coll Town, Mississippi, April 14, 2019

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

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

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   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

EF0

Date

April 14, 2019

Touchdown

2:56 AM CDT (07:56 UTC)

Lifted

2:59 AM CDT (07:59 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

2.1 miles (3.4 km)

Path width

30 yards (27 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Jackson County

Touchdown point

30.512, -88.528

Lift-off point

30.538, -88.511

Record number

1904140156-01

32 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS LIX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 107 mph.

• beam from another house thrown 100 yards into car
• beam from another house went through this window in front of house
• Visible damage to vegetation on high resolution satellite imagery from April 22, 2019. Collocated with TDS on KMOB radar.
• Narrow, defined path of tree damage visible on high resolution satellite imagery.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

A strong storm system moving through the Lower Mississippi River Valley produced strong gradient winds in advance of a cold front during the afternoon hours of the 13th. Severe thunderstorms associated with the cold front produced several reports of tornadoes during the overnight hours.

A NWS storm survey found that a high end EF-1 tornado touched down near the Pascagoula River. Where it touched down, three camps received damage. The most extensive damage was roof damage greater than 30 percent. A back wall was moved 3 inches due to the force of the wind, but remained structurally intact. The tornado moved northeast to Windrow Road, where it caused more roof damage. The storm then moved across Prescott Road where it briefly lifted the roof off of a home, causing roof and siding damage and blown out windows. The tornado then continued northeast, causing tree damage along Foxshire and Sheffield Roads before lifting along Sheffield Road. The path length was 1.1 miles and path width 50 yards. Maximum estimated wind was 110 mph.

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

17 minutes of warning. NWS LIX issued a tornado warning for this county at 07:39 UTC, 17 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 08:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 02:40 UTC and running to 08:56 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 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.

Pascagoula (PQL), 7 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 07:55 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 2019 tornado in MississippiEvery tornado in Mississippi since 1950Warnings in force in Mississippi nowThe forecast where you are

33 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.