5/5-5-6 2026 severe threat

[Ozonelayer]

Any damage photos from the first tornado in Franklin County? Looking back on CC data it appears that Garden City and/or surrounding areas had homes that were hit near the radar peak of it (Homes are littered all over that road, it had to have hit something unfortunately)

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Ozonelayer]

Any damage photos from the first tornado in Franklin County? Looking back on CC data it appears that Garden City and/or surrounding areas had homes that were hit near the radar peak of it (Homes are littered all over that road, it had to have hit something unfortunately)

Continuing this, we haven't really seen much damage out of areas south of Brookhaven, MS either. Really we only have images from the trailer park and even then that wasn't under the radar peak of that tornado (It hit that a bit further east)

Kind of weird we haven't seen much damage images from this so far.

 

[bckhd2]

It hit heavily forested, very rural areas. I wouldn't be surprised if people haven't been able to clear the roads to get into some of the smaller towns that were hit yet. Not to mention hit or miss cell service.

 

[DanLarsen34]

I imagine it may be a bit before we see the worst damage from these tornadoes last night. The amount of downed trees, even in the RFD, was absurd. Jordan Hall was trying to access another part of the path of the second tornado last night (the Monticello tornado) and every single road had hundreds of downed branches as well as big trees blocking the road well outside of the core path of the tornado.

 

[Aaron Rider]

One thing that can contribute to larger debris balls/debris fallout seen on CC in these situations is that in South MS in the Hattiesburg/Purvis/Brookhaven area where these storms were tracking, there are a ton of pine trees out there. That region has multiple national forests and generally there's just a lot of hardwood in the area to the point where the region itself is sometimes known as the Pine Belt. Unfortunately, those two cells did appear to put tornadoes down in populated areas, leading to significant CC drops on radar, but debris balls in Dixie in general can be outsized just due to the amount of lumber available for tornadoes to pick up.

Correct. That used to be ivory-billed woodpecker country. The amount of forested or forestable land in Mississippi is almost comical.

On another note, I see VROTs that looked like EF4 but has anyone seen damage pointing that way?

 

[Kds86z]

Governor still says no, 17 injuries.

 

[US_Highway15]

Governor still says no, 17 injuries.

Think I'm going to listen to Mississippi EMA and the governor of the state, over...VixenRebelWX.

And I don't know what's stupid and heartless over giving an update on last night. There's nothing in that post that signifies whatever this random Joe is going on a tangent about.

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

Think I'm going to listen to Mississippi EMA and the governor of the state, over...VixenRebelWX.

And I don't know what's stupid and heartless over giving an update on last night. There's nothing in that post that signifies whatever this random Joe is going on a tangent about.

Lincoln County Fire & Sheriff in the area did explicitly report multiple fatalities (not like the Lena, IL situation where people misheard it) including that of an infant over dispatch radio; I was listening in to it last night. Probably either just more miscommunicating or they are waiting for more confirmation to confirm those deaths.

 

[US_Highway15]

Lincoln County Fire & Sheriff in the area did explicitly report multiple fatalities (not like the Lena, IL situation where people misheard it) including that of an infant over dispatch radio; I was listening in to it last night. Probably just more miscommunicating.

Yeah I don't know, maybe there is, and they're still letting families know before reporting on the deaths. We'll see.

 

[Weatherguyx]

 

[slenker]

Everything I’ve seen from these tornadoes thus far says EF2-3 to me. Interested to see the rural tree and ground damage, could be quite violent.

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Central Ohio Wx]

Everything I’ve seen from these tornadoes thus far says EF2-3 to me. Interested to see the rural tree and ground damage, could be quite violent.

Trees are snapped and almost shredded in a forested area near Bogue Chitto; sucks that I can't post images but it's EF3+ intensity.

 

[Kds86z]

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Think I'm going to listen to Mississippi EMA and the governor of the state, over...VixenRebelWX.

And I don't know what's stupid and heartless over giving an update on last night. There's nothing in that post that signifies whatever this random Joe is going on a tangent about.

It wouldn't be a Talkweather severe weather thread without dozens of redundant, hyperbolic, and/or inflammatory tweets drowning out actual normal discussion by Talk Weather users. Why comment your own views and opinions when you can share those of irrelevant chasers and twitter users with zero thought or effort?

 

[Ozonelayer]

Trees are snapped and almost shredded in a forested area near Bogue Chitto; sucks that I can't post images but it's EF3+ intensity.

Yeah, and I saw a video in Franklin county of some very widespread and severe tree damage (possibly some patchy debarking aswell?). Both were probably EF-3+

 

[Grand Poo Bah]

Trees are snapped and almost shredded in a forested area near Bogue Chitto; sucks that I can't post images but it's EF3+ intensity.

got a link? I can post the images.

 

[Tanner]

I am a bit surprised at the limited damage shown thus far. I’m hoping that there isn’t more damage and these monsters stayed in forested areas for most of their lifespan.

 

[Weatherguyx]

They are looking for clicks and likes. Pretty much bait