File:EF4 damage to the Rolling Fork, Mississippi Water tower.jpg

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The Rolling Fork, Mississippi water tower destroyed by a violent EF4 tornado on March 24, 2023

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English: The Rolling Fork, Mississippi water tower destroyed by a violent EF4 tornado on March 24, 2023. The damage to the water tower was preliminarily rated EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. However, unlike normal damage points on the Enhanced Fujita scale, this EF4 location was not given an estimated windspeed. The National Weather Service damage survey team also added the following comment about this location: “Collapsed water tower, bent just above near base, with anchoring pulled from concrete. Tank contained water, caused crater on ground impact. Potentially compromised by flying debris.”

Mathmatical analysis by Ethan Moriarty, a mechanical engineer, determined (with some assumptions) that winds up to 229 miles per hour would be needed to cause the damage to the water tower.
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Source NOAA’s Damage Assessment Toolkit: https://apps.dat.noaa.gov/StormDamage/DamageViewer/ (Exact URL & Archived URL)
Author National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Camera location32° 54′ 36″ N, 90° 52′ 48″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by employees of the National Weather Service or National Severe Storms Laboratory using the Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT), an interactive map and database.


Images on the Damage Assessment Toolkit are taken after storms by the 122 National Weather Service forecast offices as well as the National Severe Storms Laboratory during NWS Post-Event Damage Assessments and are works prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. This makes them ineligible for copyright.

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