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Severe Weather Risk 10-17-2012 (ARK, MS, TN, MO, KY)


Jim Martin

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS

1020 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2012

.SCOTT TO NEWTON COUNTY TORNADO...

RATING: EF-3

ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 140 MPH

PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 16.25 MILES

PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 0.50 MILE

FATALITIES: 0

INJURIES: 0

START DATE: OCT 18 2012

START TIME: 1246 AM CDT

START LOCATION: 3 SE HARPERVILLE / SCOTT / MS

START LAT/LON: 32.458 / -89.4590

END DATE: OCT 18 2012

END TIME: 109 AM CDT

END LOCATION: 5 NE LAWRENCE / NEWTON / MS

END_LAT/LON: 32.3900 / -90.2120

SURVEY SUMMARY: THIS TORNADO BEGAN ALONG OLD JACKSON ROAD EAST OF

HILLSBORO. INITIALLY THE TORNADO TRACKED SOUTHEAST DOWNING MULTIPLE

TREES AS IT CROSSED HARRISON ROAD AND MS HIGHWAY 21. THERE WERE ALSO

A FEW HOMES WITH ROOF DAMAGE IN THIS AREA AND OUTBUILDINGS DAMAGED

BY FALLEN TREES. THE TORNADO THEN BEGAN A MORE EASTERLY COURSE ALONG

GREER ROAD AND BEGAN TO SNAP AND UPROOT SEVERAL ADDITIONAL TREES AS

IT CROSSED EPHESUS ROAD...LANGSMILL ROAD AND RUSSELL COMMUNITY ROAD.

ALONG RUSSELL COMMUNITY ROAD MULTIPLE TREES FELL ON STRUCTURES...

INCLUDING ONE THAT FELL THROUGH A HOME CAUSING AN INJURY. THE

TORNADO CONTINUED EASTWARD...DOWNING ADDITIONAL TREES AND CAUSED

MINOR ROOF DAMAGE AT A RESIDENCE ON GEORGE ROAD.

AS THE TORNADO REACHED THE LEWIS ROAD AREA...THERE WAS A NOTABLE

INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF HARDWOOD TREES THAT WERE SNAPPED ALONG THE

PATH. ALONG THE NORTHERN END OF THE TRACK...PART OF THE ROOF OF A

SMALL BARN WAS REMOVED. EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE CONTINUED TO THE SALEM

ROAD AREA...WHERE THE TORNADO REACHED ITS PEAK INTENSITY OF AROUND

140 MPH. AT THIS LOCATION THREE LARGE STEEL TRANSMISSION TOWERS WERE

BENT TOWARD THE GROUND BETWEEN SALEM ROAD AND JIM OWENS ROAD. ALONG

JIM OWENS ROAD...A LARGE SHED AND A TRAVEL TRAILER WERE DEMOLISHED.

FARTHER EAST THE TORNADO BLEW A MOBILE HOME INTO THE ROADWAY AT

CONEHATTA ROAD. THE ROOF AND WALLS WERE SEPARATED FROM THE

UNDERCARRIAGE AND THE CONTENTS OF THE HOME WERE SCATTERED IN THE

AREA. THERE WERE TWO OCCUPANTS IN THE HOME AT THE TIME...BOTH

ESCAPED WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INJURY. ALONG STROUD ROAD PORTIONS OF

THE ROOF OF AN OUTBUILDING WERE REMOVED AND A SMALL SILO WAS BLOWN

OVER BEFORE THE TORNADO CROSSED INTO NEWTON COUNTY.

THE TORNADO CROSSED TUSCOLAMETA CREEK...CONTINUING TO UPROOT AND

SNAP SEVERAL TREES AS IT PASSED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN END OF THE TOWN

OF CONEHATTA. A SMALL SHED WAS DEMOLISHED ALONG HOYE PACE RD.

ADDITIONAL HOMES SUFFERED ROOF DAMAGE ALONG NEWTON-CONEHATTA ROAD

AND CANEY CREEK ROAD. ONE MOBILE HOME WAS SHIFTED OFF ITS FOUNDATION

AND AN ADJACENT BARN HAD MUCH OF ITS METAL ROOF REMOVED. AN

OUTBUILDING WAS DESTROYED BY A FALLING TREE ALONG WOODROW EZELL

ROAD. FARTHER EAST...MUCH OF A METAL ROOF WAS REMOVED FROM A SHED

ALONG PLEASANT VALLEY ROAD AND A HOME SUSTAINED ROOF DAMAGE ALONG

BRADDOCK ROAD. ADDITIONAL TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED AS THE TORNADO

TRACKED EASTWARD NEARLY PARALLELING BRADDOCK ROAD BEFORE LIFTING

NEAR BEAVER DAM ROAD.

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