ALABAMA
...TORNADO 1...
...SUMTER COUNTY TORNADO...
EVENT DATE: NOVEMBER 16, 2011
EVENT TYPE: EF-2 TORNADO
ESTIMATED PEAK WINDS (MPH): 120
INJURIES/FATALITIES: 1 INJURY
EVENT START LOCATION AND TIME: 32.3633/-88.0894 AT 707 AM
EVENT END LOCATION AND TIME: 32.3763/-88.0689 AT 709 AM
DAMAGE PATH LENGTH (IN MILES): 1.50
DAMAGE WIDTH (IN YARDS): 600 YARDS
AN EF-2 TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN IN WHITFIELD AND MOVED
NORTHEAST...AND LIFTED NORTH OF COUNTY ROAD 42. ALONG ITS SHORT
PATH...APPROXIMATELY 150 SOFTWOOD TREES WERE SNAPPED...50 HARDWOOD
TREES WERE UPROOTED...AND FIVE OUTBUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED. SIX HOMES
AND ONE DOUBLE WIDE MOBILE HOME WERE DAMAGED. ONE HOME WAS DESTROYED
ALONG COUNTY ROAD 42 WHERE ONE INJURY OCCURRED.
...TORNADO 2...
...MARENGO COUNTY TORNADO...
EVENT DATE: NOVEMBER 16, 2011
EVENT TYPE: EF-0 TORNADO
ESTIMATED PEAK WINDS (MPH): 85
INJURIES/FATALITIES: NONE
EVENT START LOCATION AND TIME: 32.4813/-87.8567 AT 732 AM
EVENT END LOCATION AND TIME: 32.5032/-87.8174 AT 736 AM
DAMAGE PATH LENGTH (IN MILES): 2.57
DAMAGE WIDTH (IN YARDS): 250 YARDS
AN EF-0 TORNADO BRIEFLY TOUCHED DOWN IN DEMOPOLIS ALONG MARIA AVE
AND MOVED NORTHEAST WHERE IT CROSSED JEFFERSON RD. IT LIFTED ALONG
US HIGHWAY 80...EAST OF US HIGHWAY 43. APPROXIMATELY 20 HOMES IN THE
EDGEWOOD SUBDIVISION SUSTAINED MINOR ROOF DAMAGE. SEVERAL BUSINESS
SIGNS ALONG US HIGHWAY 80 WERE BLOWN DOWN. THE CENTRAL FARMERS COOP
SUSTAINED SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AS A PORTION OF ITS ROOF WAS
REMOVED.
MISSISSIPPI
MARION/JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY TORNADO:
BEGINNING POINT: 8 N COLUMBIA AT 411 AM
ENDING POINT: 3 SE BASSFIELD AT 425 AM
RATING: EF-1, MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WINDS 100 MPH
PATH LENGTH: 11 MILES MAXIMUM WIDTH 0.25 MILES
SUMMARY OF DAMAGE: THE TORNADO STARTED IN MARION COUNTY ON GOSS
BUNKER HILL ROAD WITH MOSTLY MINOR TREE DAMAGE. AS IT MOVED
NORTHEAST, CROSSING STUCKEY ROAD, MORE MINOR TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED
ALONG WITH HOME TV AND RADIO ANTENNAS BEING BLOWN DOWN. AS IT MOVED
ALONG E. RESERVOIR ROAD, MORE SUBSTANTIAL TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG
WITH ROOF DAMAGE TO A FEW HOMES AND MOBILE HOMES. AS IT CONTINUED
NORTHEAST, MORE MAJOR TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG WITH SNAPPED POWER
POLES ON BUFKIN AND GRICE ROADS. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE
OCCURRED ALONG BUNKER HILL ROAD WHERE HOME WITH ROOF DAMAGE OCCURRED
ALONG WITH MANY TREES UPROOTED AND SNAPPED. SEVERAL METAL SHEDS WERE
EITHER SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. A CATTLE TRAILER WAS PICKED UP
AND THROWN APPROXIMATELY 200 YARDS. AS IT CROSSED HWY 35, MAJOR TREE
DAMAGE CONTINUED WHERE PINES AND HARDWOOD WERE EITHER SNAPPED OR
UPROOTED. A CARPORT WAS COLLAPSED AT A RESIDENCE NEAR BRYANT ROAD.
THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST CROSSING ROBBINS AND F. MCNEESE ROAD
WHERE MAINLY TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED. AS THE TORNADO CROSSED S.
WILLIAMSBURG ROAD, THE ROOF OF A NEWLY BUILT BAR WAS TORN OFF ALONG
WITH MAJOR TREE DAMAGE. AS IT CONTINUED NORTHEAST FROM THERE, MOSTLY
TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED UNTIL IT ENDED NEAR GATES ROAD, JUST SOUTH OF
HWY 42 IN JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNTY.
JONES COUNTY TORNADO:
BEGINNING POINT: 4 SE HEBRON AT 503 AM
ENDING POINT: 4.5 ESE HEBRON AT 507 AM
RATING: EF-1, MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WINDS 95 MPH
PATH LENGTH: 2 MILES MAXIMUM WIDTH: 50 YARDS
SUMMARY OF DAMAGE: THIS TORNADO DEVELOPED AND DOWNED SEVERAL TREES
ALONG FRED ELLZEY ROAD, AND CAUSED MODERATE DAMAGE TO THE ROOF OF A
LARGE HOME NORTH OF THE ROAD. THE TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST, SNAPPING
SEVERAL TREES AND HEAVILY DAMAGING AN OUTBUILDING AS IT CROSSED WEST
CREEK ROAD. THE TORNADO THEN SNAPPED A FEW TREES AND DAMAGED THE ROOF
OF AN OUTBUILDING JUST BEFORE CROSSING HIGHWAY 84, SHORTLY AFTER
WHICH IT DISSIPATED.
JONES/JASPER COUNTY TORNADO
BEGINNING POINT: 7 W LAUREL AT 512 AM
ENDING POINT: 2.5 N SHARON AT 530 AM
RATING: EF-2, MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WINDS 130 MPH
INJURIES: 15
PATH LENGTH: 12 MILES MAXIMUM WIDTH: 300 YARDS
SUMMARY OF DAMAGE:
THE TORNADO DEVELOPED ALONG PAT HOLLIMAN AND LEROY HILL ROADS,
DOWNING A FEW TREES. THE TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST, WIDENED AND REACHED
ITS MAXIMUM WIDTH IN THE AREA OF SPRINGHILL ROAD, WHERE HIGH END EF-1
DAMAGE TO TREES OCCURRED. THE TORNADO THEN NARROWED TO ABOUT 150 TO
250 YARD WIDE PATH OF MID TO HIGH END EF-2 DAMAGE ON EITHER SIDE OF
STATE HIGHWAY 15 IN THE SHADY GROVE COMMUNITY NORTHWEST OF LAUREL.
SEVERAL MOBILE HOMES WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED, NUMEROUS POWER POLES
WERE SNAPPED, SEVERAL FRAME AND BRICK HOMES SUFFERED MAJOR DAMAGE AND
OTHER MODERATE DAMAGE, AND EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED. A FEW
COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 15 SUFFERED MAJOR DAMAGE. AS
THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHEAST JONES COUNTY, IT
CAUSED EF-1 TYPE DAMAGE AS IT CROSSED SHARON-MOSS AND LAKE COMO
ROADS, SNAPPING AND UPROOTING TREES AND CAUSING SOME ROOF AND MINOR
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES. THE TORNADO THEN INTENSIFIED
SOMEWHAT AGAIN AS IT CROSSED INTO JASPER COUNTY, DESTROYING THREE
LARGE CHICKEN HOUSES AND CAUSING EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE ALONG COUNTY
ROAD 812 JUST INSIDE THE JASPER COUNTY LINE. THE TORNADO DISSIPATED
SHORTLY AFTER CAUSING THIS DAMAGE. SO FAR, 15 PEOPLE WERE INJURED BY
THIS TORNADO, WITH NEARLY ALL OF THE INJURIES BEING RELATIVELY MINOR.
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