2023 Amory tornado
2023 EF3 tornado in Mississippi, U.S
On the night of March 24, 2023, a large, extremely fast-moving, and intense EF3 tornado tracked across Chickasaw, Monroe, and Itawamba Counties in Mississippi, most notably striking the city of Amory. It was one of four EF3+ tornadoes in a large tornado outbreak in late March, including the 2023 Rolling Fork tornado. The tornado was on the ground for 31 minutes, traveled 36.91 miles (59.40 km), had an average forward windspeed of 71.4 mph (114.9 km/h), and caused 2 fatalities as well as 55 injuries. The tornado also caused $80.045 million worth of damages.
The tornado was produced by a long-track supercell that had formed that had formed around 7:57 p.m. along the Louisiana-Mississippi border and traveled northeast spawning two tornadoes, a high-end EF4 tornado that devastated Rolling Fork, Mississippi and a high-end EF3 tornado that struck near the city of Winona, before entering Chickasaw County. At 10.38 p.m. the tornado would touch down southwest of Egypt immediately causing EF1 damage as it crossed U.S. Route 45, before intensifying to EF2 intensity on Egypt Road. Now at EF3 intensity, the tornado would enter Tranquil and produced EF3 damage. Shortly after this, the tornado passed near New Wren where a tornado emergency would be issued for the community as well as Amory.
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