Watches, Warnings & Advisories for Sunflower Co.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Storm Damage Reports from 1/29/13 Storms

Survey teams from the National Weather Service office in Jackson, MS toured several areas today to survey damage and validate radar data from storms that occurred on January 29-30, 2013.  Here are the results of their surveys today.

Local Storm Report by NWS JAN: 3 E Scott [Bolivar Co, MS] NWS storm survey reports TORNADO of EF at 29 Jan, 06:47 PM CST -- NWS storm survey found an EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 75mph. this tornado touched down briefly near the Stringtown community and uprooted one large tree and caused shingle damage to three homes.

Local Storm Report by NWS JAN: 6 SW Cleveland [Bolivar Co, MS] NWS storm survey reports TORNADO of EF at 29 Jan, 11:10 PM CST -- NWS storm survey found an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 100mph and maximum width of 150 yards. touched down around 2.5 WSW of Skene community and ended on Hwy 8 near Cleveland Municipal Airport.

Local Storm Report by NWS JAN: 2 SE Shaw [Sunflower Co, MS] NWS storm survey reports DOWNBURST at 30 Jan, 12:20 AM CST -- several power poles were pushed over or snapped by 80 to 90 mph downburst winds near the community of Frazier on Highway 448.

The following are storm damage reports gathered by NWS Jackson for the same event:

Location: 1 E of Leland, MS [Washington County]
Time: 2013-01-30 01:27 UTC
Event: 0 TSTM WND DMG
Source: emergency mngr
Remark: reports that a roof was blown off at lillos restaurant on highway 82 east.

Location: 2 SW of Cleveland, MS [Bolivar County]
Time: 2013-01-30 05:14 UTC
Event: 0 TSTM WND DMG
Source: emergency mngr
Remark: a 1 mile stretch of power poles were snapped along shaw-skene rd. hail also occurred in this area...size unknown.

Location: Cleveland (Delta State Campus) [Bolivar County]
Time: 2013-01-30 06:10 UTC
Event: 0 TSTM WND DMG
Source: emergency mngr
Remark: tree down on the delta state campus...a few power lines down across the county.

Location: Itta Bena [Leflore County]
Time: 2013-01-30 07:10 UTC
Event: 0 TSTM WND DMG
Source: law enforcement
Remark: a few power lines down.

Location: 5 SSW of Black Hawk [Carroll County]
Time: 2013-01-30 07:40 UTC
Event: 0 TSTM WND DMG
Source: law enforcement
Remark: trees down along Holly Grove and Meeks road off highway 17

Location: Zama [Attala County]
Time: 2013-01-30 09:50 UTC
Event: 0 TSTM WND DMG
Source: law enforcement
Remark: several trees down with a few across hwy 19.




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