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Public Information Statement
Issued by NWS Jackson, MS

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NOUS44 KJAN 221844
PNSJAN

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS
1230 PM CST FRI JAN 22 2010

...MADISON COUNTY TORNADO SURVEY INFORMATION...

AN NWS SURVEY TEAM INVESTIGATED DAMAGE IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST MADISON
COUNTY THIS MORNING...AND DETERMINED THAT A WEAK TORNADO BRIEFLY
TOUCHED DOWN IN THE AREA WEDNESDAY EVENING.

COUNTY/COUNTIES: MADISON COUNTY
TIME OF EVENT: 600 PM CST 1/20/10
BEGINNING POINT: 2.5 E POCAHONTAS, 32.475N, 90.238W
ENDING POINT: 3.5 ENE POCAHONTAS, 32.482N, 90.224W
RATING: EF0, MAX WINDS 70 MPH
PATH LENGTH: 1 MILE
MAXIMUM WIDTH: 40 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0

SUMMARY OF DAMAGE:
TORNADO STARTED ALONG COKER ROAD...WHERE IT DOWNED SEVERAL TREES AND
LARGE LIMBS...BLEW DOWN A FENCE...DOWNED A POWERLINE...AND CAUSED
MINOR DAMAGE TO A BARN. AT LEAST ONE HOME WAS DAMAGED BY A LARGE
SECTION OF A TREE FALLING ON THE CORNER OF IT. THE TORNADO THEN
TRACKED EAST NORTHEAST ACROSS MOSS RIDGE ROAD WHERE A COUPLE OF
TREES AND SEVERAL LARGE LIMBS WERE DOWNED...DAMAGING SOME FENCES.
FROM THERE THE TORNADO MOVED ACROSS LAKE LORMAN...AND THEN DOWNED
SOME TREES...LIMBS AND A POWERLINE ALONG LAKESHORE DRIVE. THE
TORNADO DISSIPATED SHORTLY AFTER THIS POINT. THE PATH OF DAMAGE WAS
RELATIVELY FOCUSED...WITH VERY LITTLE DAMAGE OBSERVED OUTSIDE OF
THIS PATH.

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