EF1 tornado, Artesia to Trinity, Mississippi, April 13, 2022

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

April 13, 2022

Touchdown

9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)

Lifted

9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)

On the ground

8 minutes

Path length

7.5 miles (12.1 km)

Path width

1,000 yards (914 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$320,000

Counties

Noxubee and Lowndes counties

Touchdown point

33.225, -88.487

Lift-off point

33.314, -88.419

Record number

2204132011-01

22 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 93 mph.

• Sheds rolled, trees snapped, crossbar on power pole damaged.
• Couple of larger branches down
• Trees down with power pole.
• Couple downed trees and barn with tin peeled back.

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

A few rounds of severe thunderstorms moved across portions of Mississippi from late in the evening of April 12th through the evening of April 13th. These storms produced wind damage and several tornadoes before a cold front brought an end to storms from west to east.

A tornado developed in Oktibbeha County just west of Old Crawford Road south of the intersection with Chapel Hill Road, where the tops of several trees were snapped off. It strengthened and continued east across Crawford Rd. It was here that a pole barn lost a portion of its tin roofing. The tornado continued into Lowndes County south of Red Bud Road. It blew down several small trees and large tree branches along Schlater Road and moved northeast toward Gilmer Wilburn Road. Numerous trees were snapped, a utility pole was damaged and leaning, and several small outdoor buildings/wooden sheds were thrown. Continuing east-northeast, the tornado marginally weakened while maintaining EF-1 intensity as it uprooted trees along Gilmer Wilburn Rd. Shortly after moving beyond the Hardy Billups Rd intersection, the tornado weakened and quickly dissipated near Gilmer Creek. The estimated peak wind gust was 95 mph. The total path length was 9.31 miles across the two counties.

A tornado touched down along Mickens Clay Road in the Deerbrook community of Noxubee County where it initially blew down some tree branches. The tornado continued northeast across Mississippi Highway 388 just west of Deerbrook Road and snapped and uprooted a few trees as it crossed the highway. Trees were snapped and uprooted as it continued northeast toward MS Highway 792. A residence and several barns were damaged on the west side of Hwy 792. The main house lost some shingles on its western side, and two barns near the house lost the southwest facing portions of their roofs and had southwest facing walls collapse. Trees at Hwy 792 were snapped and uprooted, and an open barn at the road buckled and partially collapsed. The tornado continued into farmland on the east side of the highway, where it overturned six center pivot segments and downed a few more trees. The tornado crossed into Lowndes County east of Old Macon Road. The tornado damaged a roof and some decking at a home along Chat and Chew Road and then dissipated. The maximum estimated wind gust 105 mph. The total path length was 7.43 miles across the two counties.

A tornado touched down along Mickens Clay Road in the Deerbrook community of Noxubee County where it initially blew down some tree branches. The tornado continued northeast across Mississippi Highway 388 just west of Deerbrook Road and snapped and uprooted a few trees as it crossed the highway. Trees were snapped and uprooted as it continued northeast toward MS Highway 792. A residence and several barns were damaged on the west side of Hwy 792. The main house lost some shingles on its western side, and two barns near the house lost the southwest facing portions of their roofs and had southwest facing walls collapse. Trees at Hwy 792 were snapped and uprooted, and an open barn at the road buckled and partially collapsed. The tornado continued into farmland on the east side of the highway, where it overturned six center pivot segments and downed a few more trees. The tornado crossed into Lowndes County east of Old Macon Road. The tornado damaged a roof and some decking at a home along Chat and Chew Road and then dissipated. The maximum estimated wind gust 105 mph. The total path length was 7.43 miles across the two counties.

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

32 minutes of warning. NWS JAN issued a tornado warning for this county at 01:39 UTC, 32 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 02:28 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 19:48 UTC and running to 02:56 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 Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Enhanced Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 01:00 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.

Golden Tri(Awos) (GTR), 24 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 02:14 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 2022 tornado in MississippiEvery tornado in Mississippi since 1950Warnings in force in Mississippi nowThe forecast where you are

39 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.