Ceaseless Wind

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SPC Storm Reports

This was outbreak of tornadoes with one predominate storm, the long-tracked supercell which struck Yazoo City, MS.

The track of the main tornado with this cell has been measured atjust over 149 miles in Mississippi.  This storm did produce additional tornadoes in Mississippi and after it tracked into Alabama.  The surveys are still preliminary from all of the affected National Weather Service offcies. The official report on the first tornado out of the Jackson, MS National Weather Service office can be found here.

Portions of the Ozarks were affected back on February 5th, 2008 by the end of a very long-track tornado, the longest in recent history.

Outbreaks like this and long-track tornadoes are fairly rare.  It takes a list of parameters to line up in space and time just right to produce this type of weather.  One little thing, such as another thunderstorm forming or slight differences in the the wind or instability along the path of the storm can break the situation down and cause tornadoes to break up.