Tornadoes hit the South hard on Easter Sunday, just as by the National Weather Service. Three days later, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite captured an image of a long scar left by one of the day’s powerful twisters.
The image shows a 68-mile-long scar in Mississippi, which is land flattened by an EF-4 tornado, the second-most damaging type of tornado.
Easter tornado scar.
This radar loop shows the progression of the two long-track tornadoes that impacted Southeast Mississippi on Sunday.
Based off of the preliminary survey results, @NWSJacksonMS determined that the first tornado had a rating of EF-4 and the second was an EF-3. pic.twitter.com/Nydy7rNsce— msema (@MSEMA) April 15, 2020
Tornado scar from EF-4 tornado that occurred on Sunday in Mississippi.
These scars are only viewable from space after the largest, most powerful tornadoes. pic.twitter.com/AbPoBmoltV
— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) April 15, 2020
Tornadoes are the most violent type of storm. In Mississippi alone, the Easter twisters .
Meanwhile in Georgia, an Easter tornado moved a house into the middle of a road.
Spring is high time for twisters in the Gulf Coast states. Tornadoes often form from a dangerous type of thunderstorm with rotating updrafts, called a supercell. Meteorologists can predict the chaotic atmospheric conditions that will produce supercells, and thus the potential for violent tornadoes.
