EF1 tornado, Youngton to Phoenix, Mississippi, June 24, 2019

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

June 24, 2019

Touchdown

3:45 AM CDT (08:45 UTC)

Lifted

3:50 AM CDT (08:50 UTC)

On the ground

5 minutes

Path length

3.3 miles (5.3 km)

Path width

400 yards (366 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$70,000

Counties

Warren, Hinds and Yazoo counties

Touchdown point

32.497, -90.584

Lift-off point

32.516, -90.533

Record number

1906240245-01

7 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS JAN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 112 mph.

• Numerous trees snapped and uprooted
• End point, some trees damaged.
• Start point, several trees uprooted, tornado quickly intensified as it neared the river.

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

An organized line of showers and thunderstorms developed as a disturbance approached from the northwest and moved through the area. Some of these storms produced flash flooding, damaging winds, and 3 tornadoes.

A high end EF1 tornado touched down in the Big Black river bottom and traversed the river along the Warren-Hinds County line and then into Yazoo County where it dissipated. This tornado started on the Warren County side of the river, then crossed into Hinds County north of Halifax Rd and tracked generally NE. This tornado caused substantial tree damage through the river bottom. Damage photos were supportive of high end EF1 with max winds near 110 mph. The tornado continued NE, then dissipated in far southern Yazoo County. Access to this area was done by helicopter and photos were taken of the tree damage and the path. Many thanks to the Hinds Co Emergency Manager for obtaining the resources to perform the survey. Peak wind in this part of the tornado was 82 mph with the overall maximum wind speed along the track of 110 mph. Maximum path width was 440 yards. Total path length was 3.27 miles.

A high end EF1 tornado touched down in the Big Black river bottom and traversed the river along the Warren-Hinds County line and then into Yazoo County where it dissipated. This tornado started on the Warren County side of the river, then crossed into Hinds County north of Halifax Rd and tracked generally NE. This tornado caused substantial tree damage through the river bottom. Damage photos were supportive of high end EF1 with max winds near 110 mph. The tornado continued NE, then dissipated in far southern Yazoo County. Access to this area was done by helicopter and photos were taken of the tree damage and the path. Many thanks to the Hinds Co Emergency Manager for obtaining the resources to perform the survey. Peak wind in this part of the tornado was 82 mph with the overall maximum wind speed along the track of 110 mph. Maximum path width was 440 yards. Total path length was 3.27 miles.

A high end EF1 tornado touched down in the Big Black river bottom and traversed the river along the Warren-Hinds County line and then into Yazoo County where it dissipated. This tornado started on the Warren County side of the river, then crossed into Hinds County north of Halifax Rd and tracked generally NE. This tornado caused substantial tree damage through the river bottom. Damage photos were supportive of high end EF1 with max winds near 110 mph. The tornado continued NE, then dissipated in far southern Yazoo County. Access to this area was done by helicopter and photos were taken of the tree damage and the path. Many thanks to the Hinds Co Emergency Manager for obtaining the resources to perform the survey. Peak wind in this part of the tornado was 82 mph with the overall maximum wind speed along the track of 110 mph. Maximum path width was 440 yards. Total path length was 3.27 miles.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:49 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.

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 08:46 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

10 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.