VIDEO: Tornado Causes Million Dollars Worth of Timber Damages

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WCBI)- More than $1 million worth of timber was destroyed by last week’s tornado in Lamar, Forrest, and Perry counties.

The Mississippi Forestry Commission announced the estimate Friday and based it on aerial damage assessments.

The commission says the EF-3 tornado, which had estimated top winds of 145mph and cut a 31-mile path, damaged nearly 15-hundred acres of privately owned land.

The twister also damaged 118 acres of public lands managed by the commission.

Estimates show damage to private forest land was almost half a million dollars.

The damage estimate for all timberland, including public land and land within urban areas where timber might not be harvested for commercial use, was almost 1.1 million dollars.