The National Weather Service has now confirmed a total of 15 tornadoes from last Wednesday’s outbreak of severe storms in Mississippi. Two of them were on the ground in Winston County at the same time.
0851 PM TORNADO 3 WSW BLUFF LAKE 33.26N 88.84W
04/13/2022 WINSTON MS NWS STORM SURVEY
THIS EF1 TORNADO BEGAN IN A WOODED AREA
SOUTH OF BLUFF LAKE RD AND NORTH OF DUMMY
LINE ROAD. THE TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST
CROSSING BOTH ROADS WERE MULTIPLE TREES WERE
UPROOTED AND SNAPPED. THE TORNADO MOVED
PARALLEL TO BLUFF LAKE RD AND CONTINUED TO
UPROOT AND SNAP MULTIPLE TREES. LARGE LIMBS
WERE DOWNED ALONG OFFICE ROAD BEFORE THE
TORNADO MOVED ACROSS BLUFF LAKE. SPORADIC
TREE AND LIMB DAMAGE WAS NOTED ON BLUFF LAKE
ROAD EAST OF THE LAKE AS WELL AS ALONG
SKINNER ROAD. THE TORNADO DISSIPATED IN A
WOODED AREA JUST NORTH OF SKINNER ROAD. MAX
WIND 105 MPH, MAX PATH WIDTH 700 YARDS, PATH
LENGTH 6 MILES.
***0851 PM TORNADO 4 ENE BETHEDEN 33.23N 88.87W
04/13/2022 WINSTON MS NWS STORM SURVEY
ONE OF TWO EF-1 TORNADOES THAT PASSED
SIMULTANEOUSLY THROUGH THE NOXUBEE NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGE TOUCHED DOWN NEAR SECTION
LINE ROAD EAST OF LOAKFOMA ROAD WHERE IT
SNAPPED A TREE AND DOWNED A FEW LIMBS. IT
MOVED NORTHEAST THROUGH PASTURE AND FOREST
UNTIL CROSSING DUMMY LINE ROAD A HALF MILE
SOUTH OF THE NORTHERN TORNADO. THE SOUTHERN
TORNADO CONTINUED TO CAUSE INTERMITTENT TREE
DAMAGE ALONG NOXUBEE CEMETERY ROAD AND THEN
CROSSED BLUFF LAKE ROAD. HERE, SEVERAL TREES
WERE UPROOTED IN THE MARSHY AREAS AND NEAR
PICNIC PAVILIONS ON THE SOUTHERN END OF THE
LAKE. THE TORNADO APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AT
ITS MOST INTENSE AS IT CROSSED THE SOUTHERN
END OF LEVEE ROAD AND SNAPPED AND UPROOTED
NUMEROUS TREES BEFORE MOVING INTO THE WOODED
AREAS EAST OF THE LEVEE. SOME ADDITIONAL
MINOR TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG SKINNER
ROAD IN SOUTHERN OKTIBBEHA COUNTY WHERE THE
TORNADO DISSIPATED. MAX WIND SPEED 105 MPH,
MAX PATH WIDTH 250 YDS, PATH LENGTH 10.8
MILES.
