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.PENSACOLA/FERRY PASS FLORIDA TORNADO... RATING: EF-3 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 155 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 8 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 300 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: ESTIMATED 3 START DATE: FEB 23 2016 START TIME: 810 PM CST START LOCATION: 1.5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PENSACOLA AIRPORT / ESCAMBIA / FL START LAT/LON: 30.4907 / -87.2052 END DATE: FEB 23 2016 END TIME: 821 PM CST END LOCATION: 1.7 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF MULAT / SANTA ROSA / FL END_LAT/LON: 30.5563 / -87.0956 SUMMARY: THE TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN SOUTHWEST OF CREIGHTON ROAD (PENSACOLA) AND QUICKLY STRENGTHENED AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST. THE FIRST AREA OF EF-2 DAMAGE WAS NOTED ON LANSING DRIVE WHERE SIGNIFICANT ROOF DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED TO A COUPLE OF HOMES ALONG WITH SNAPPED POWER POLES AND EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE. THE TORNADO CROSSED OVER INTERSTATE 10 JUST WEST OF 9TH AVENUE AND CROSSED 9TH AVENUE NORTH OF THE INTERSTATE. EF-1 DAMAGE WAS NOTED...PRIMARILY TO HARDWOOD TREES IN THE AREA OF INTERSTATE 10 AND 9TH AVENUE. INTENSIFICATION WAS NOTED AS IT MOVED FURTHER EAST OF 9TH AVENUE AND EAST OF NORTHPOINTE BOULEVARD. THE ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF OF TWO HOMES...ONE ON LA BORDE LANE AND ONE ON GLADSTONE DRIVE. ADDITIONAL EF-2 DAMAGE TO HOMES WAS OBSERVED FURTHER TO THE NORTHEAST ON TRADEWINDS DRIVE. TWO VEHICLES WERE OVERTUNED IN THIS LOCATION. IT WAS AT THIS POINT THAT FURTHER INTENSIFICATION BEGAN. THE TORNADO THEN REACHED PEAK INTENSITY SHORTLY THEREAFTER AS IT MOVED OVER THE MOORING APARTMENTS ON OLD SPANISH TRAIL AND THE GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) PLANT. EF-3 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED AT TWO OF THE APARTMENT BUILDINGS WITH MAJOR DAMAGE TO THE 2ND STORY OF THE BUILDINGS (WALLS). EF-3 DAMAGE OCCURRED AT THE GE PLANT WHERE A WAREHOUSE WAS DESTROYED. ADDITIONAL EF-3 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED AT THE GRAND BAROQUE TOWNHOUSES ON SCENIC HIGHWAY WHERE TWO UNITS WERE DESTROYED. THE TORNADO WAS NEAR PEAK INTENSITY AS IT MOVED ACROSS ESCAMBIA BAY. AN 18 WHEELER WAS OVERTUNRED ON THE ESCAMBIA BAY BRIDGE JUST WEST OF THE SANTA ROSA COUNTY LINE. SOME OF THE DEBRIS FROM THE GE PLANT WAS FOUND NEAR THE WESTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY SHORELINE. THE TORNADO WEAKENED AS IT MOVED INTO SANTA ROSA COUNTY. EF-1 DAMAGE WAS FIRST NOTED ON SAN JUAN STREET AT SEALARK LANE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST...PRODUCING ADDITIONAL EF-1 DAMAGE. THE TORNADO FINALLY LIFTED NEAR SHETLAND CIRCLE JUST WEST OF AVALON BOULEVARD. |
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.GREENE COUNTY MS TORNADO #1... RATING: EF-1 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 95 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 1.52 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 75 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: FEB 23 2016 START TIME: 525 PM CST START LOCATION: 3 SE AVERA / GREENE / MS START LAT/LON: 31.2627 / -88.7064 END DATE: FEB 23 2016 END TIME: 527 PM CST END LOCATION: 3 ESE AVERA / GREENE / MS END LAT/LON: 31.2797 / -88.6902 SURVEY SUMMARY: THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN ALONG MS-63... SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF AVERA. A HOMESTEAD WAS AFFECTED AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST. AT THE HOMESTEAD...METAL ROOFING MATERIAL FROM A BARN WAS LOFTED INTO AN ADJACENT TREE. A TRAILER WAS ALSO OVERTURNED...WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE MOVED FROM ITS INITIAL POSITION. SOME MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THE BARN WAS ALSO NOTED. NUMEROUS (MOSTLY) PINE TREES WERE EITHER BLOWN DOWN OR SNAPPED AS THE STORM HEADED INTO A LESS POPULATED AREA OF THE COUNTY. THE TORNADO LIFTED JUST EAST-SOUTHEAST OF AVERA. |
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.GREENE COUNTY MS TORNADO #2... RATING: EF-1 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 90 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.03 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 75 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: FEB 23 2016 START TIME: 532 PM CST START LOCATION: 5 E AVERA / GREENE / MS START LAT/LON: 31.3112 / -88.6494 END DATE: FEB 23 2016 END TIME: 532 PM CST END LOCATION: 5 E AVERA / GREENE / MS END LAT/LON: 31.3116 / -88.6491 SURVEY SUMMARY: A SECOND BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS FOUND IN VICINITY OF SHADY HOLLOW ROAD IN NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY. A COUPLE OF TREES WITH LARGE BRANCHES WERE SHEARED IN A FORESTED AREA SEVERAL DOZEN YARDS TO THE WEST OF THE ROAD. THE TORNADO QUICKLY MOVED ACROSS THE ROAD...EF1 DAMAGE WAS NOTED AS MANY PINE TREES WERE EITHER UPROOTED OR SNAPPED. DAMAGE IN THIS AREA COINCIDES WITH AN OPERATOR-DEFINED TORNADO VORTEX SIGNATURE...AS WELL AS A TORNADIC DEBRIS SIGNATURE FROM THE MOBILE WSR-88D. |
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.GREENE/WAYNE COUNTY MS TORNADO #3... RATING: EF-1 ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 95 MPH PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 1.52 MILES PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 75 YARDS FATALITIES: 0 INJURIES: 0 START DATE: FEB 23 2016 START TIME: 525 PM CST START LOCATION: 3 SE AVERA / GREENE / MS START LAT/LON: 31.2627 / -88.7064 END DATE: FEB 23 2016 END TIME: 527 PM CST END LOCATION: 3 ESE AVERA / GREENE / MS END LAT/LON: 31.2797 / -88.6902 SURVEY SUMMARY: THE TORNADO INITIALLY TOUCHED DOWN ALONG MS-63... SOUTHEAST OF THE COMMUNITY OF AVERA. A HOMESTEAD WAS AFFECTED AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST. AT THE HOMESTEAD...METAL ROOFING MATERIAL FROM A BARN WAS LOFTED INTO AN ADJACENT TREE. A TRAILER WAS ALSO OVERTURNED...WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE MOVED FROM ITS INITIAL POSITION. SOME MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO THE BARN WAS ALSO NOTED. NUMEROUS (MOSTLY) PINE TREES WERE EITHER BLOWN DOWN OR SNAPPED AS THE STORM HEADED INTO A LESS POPULATED AREA OF THE COUNTY. THE TORNADO LIFTED JUST EAST-SOUTHEAST OF AVERA. |
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.GREENE COUNTY MS THUNDERSTORM WIND
PEAK WIND /E/: 95 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 5.83 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 75 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: FEB 23 2016
START TIME: 535 PM CST
START LOCATION: 7 N JONATHAN / GREENE / MS
START LAT/LON: 31.3290 / -88.6170
END DATE: FEB 23 2016
END TIME: 539 PM CST
END LOCATION: 6 SW STATE LINE / GREENE / MS
END LAT/LON: 31.3745 / -88.5351
SURVEY SUMMARY: DOWNBURST WINDS WERE NOTED ALONG A 5.83 MILE
PATH ON THE LEADING EDGE OF A BOW EHCO. LARGE PINE TREES WERE
UPROOTED AND SNAPPED ALONG THE DOWNBURST`S PATH...WITH ALL
TREES LAYING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. THE MOST SIGNFICANT DAMAGE
OCCURRED APPROXIMATELY 9 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF JONATHAN...
WHERE A 40X52 STORAGE BUILDING WAS DESTROYED AND DAMAGE TO SIDING
ON A MOBILE HOME WAS OBSERVED.
FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES.
EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPH
EF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPH
EF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPH
EF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPH
EF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPH
EF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPH
NOTE:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE
PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENTS AND PUBLICATION IN NWS STORM DATA.
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