Tornado confirmed in Mississippi; some damage reported
TYLERTOWN, Miss. – The National Weather Service confirms that a tornado touched down in southern Mississippi.
A mobile home was damaged and moved about 3 feet (1 metre) off its foundation while a storage shed was overturned and destroyed. No one was injured.
A survey shows a twister with top winds of 77 mph (125 kph) struck north of the Salem community in Walthall County at 6:39 a.m. Wednesday. The tornado, rated EF-0 on the enhanced Fujita scale, travelled for 200 yards (180 metres). The path was about 50 yards (45 metres) wide.
Weather Service forecaster Robert Ricks says the storm was part of a line of thunderstorms along a frontal boundary pushing southeast through Mississippi and Louisiana.
Some tree branches were snapped about 2.5 miles (4 kilometres) away at the same time.
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