What the record says
On 21 January 2017, a tornado touched down near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The Storm Prediction Center records its path as 31.1 miles long and up to 900 yards wide, rated EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale. It killed 4 people and injured 57.
- EF3Enhanced Fujita rating
- 4deaths
- 57injuries
- 31.1 mipath length
- 900 ydmaximum width
It has its own page because it killed three or more people and it was rated 3 and killed at least one person.
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
The start point was at 31.19, -89.48 and the end point at 31.42, -89.03 (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 2017
- Berlin, Georgia tornado22 January 2017, EF3, 11 deaths, 45 injuries, 24.7 miles long
- Albany, Georgia tornado22 January 2017, EF3, 5 deaths, 88 injuries, 70.4 miles long
- Log Cabin, Texas tornado29 April 2017, EF4, 2 deaths, 25 injuries, 21.4 miles long
- Eustace, Texas tornado29 April 2017, EF3, 2 deaths, 24 injuries, 39.7 miles long
- Ottawa, Illinois tornado28 February 2017, EF3, 2 deaths, 14 injuries, 11.5 miles long
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