What the record says
On 23 December 2015, a tornado touched down near Abbeville, Mississippi. The Storm Prediction Center records its path as 75.1 miles long and up to 1,300 yards wide, rated EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. It killed 9 people and injured 36.
- EF4Enhanced Fujita rating
- 9deaths
- 36injuries
- 75.1 mipath length
- 1,300 ydmaximum width
It has its own page because it was rated 4 or 5 and it killed three or more people.
This page gives the official record's figures. Numbers of deaths and injuries are sometimes revised after a survey, and they cannot convey what the day was like for the people who lived through it.
Counties it crossed
- Benton County, Mississippi
- Marshall County, Mississippi
- Tate County, Mississippi
- Tippah County, Mississippi
- Hardeman County, Tennessee
- McNairy County, Tennessee
The start point was at 34.60, -89.71 and the end point at 35.15, -88.57 (latitude, longitude).
How to read this path
The Storm Prediction Center records most tornadoes as a straight line from the point where they touched down to the point where they lifted. The real path usually curved and was not the same width all the way along. The width given is the widest part. Older records are less precise, and the record starts in 1950.
Source: the NOAA Storm Prediction Center database, public domain.
Other notable tornadoes in Mississippi
- Learned, Mississippi tornado3 March 1966, F5, 58 deaths, 518 injuries, 202.5 miles long
- Cary, Mississippi tornado21 February 1971, F4, 58 deaths, 795 injuries, 202.1 miles long
- Delhi, Louisiana tornado21 February 1971, F5, 47 deaths, 510 injuries, 109.2 miles long
- Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado5 December 1953, F5, 38 deaths, 270 injuries, 9 miles long
- Fayette, Mississippi tornado23 January 1969, F4, 32 deaths, 241 injuries, 117.8 miles long
- Smithville, Mississippi tornado27 April 2011, EF5, 23 deaths, 137 injuries, 37.3 miles long
Other notable tornadoes of 2015
- Garland, Texas tornado26 December 2015, EF4, 10 deaths, 468 injuries, 13 miles long
- Franklin Grove, Illinois tornado9 April 2015, EF4, 2 deaths, 11 injuries, 30.1 miles long
- Duncan, Mississippi tornado23 December 2015, EF3, 2 deaths, 28 injuries, 61.6 miles long
- Edom, Texas tornado10 May 2015, EF3, 2 deaths, 43 injuries, 10.2 miles long
- Armstrong, Oklahoma tornado25 May 2015, EF3, 1 death, 1 injury, 18.8 miles long
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