NATCHEZ — A National Weather Service team is inspecting last week’s storm damage and will soon make a final ruling — straight line winds or a tornado.

Two teams of two NWS inspectors began working their way south last week, stopping in all the areas damaged by last Tuesday night’s storms.

“They look for different patterns,” senior forecaster Mike Edmonston said. “They look for trees that are twisted or laying in a twisted pattern like pickup sticks.

“If they are all laying in the same direction, generally it is straight line winds.”

If the team sees evidence of a tornado, they’ll begin to look at damaged structures to make a final determination on the strength of the storm, Edmonston said.

The inspection team has already visited Franklin and Jefferson counties and filed a report of an F1 tornado.

The tornado started just west, northwest of Hamburg and traveled northeast for 11 miles, the report says. The tornado moved into Jefferson County and ended just east of McNair.

The heaviest damage was during the first three miles of the tornado. Numerous trees were down, one home was damaged and five other structures received minor roof damage in that area.

The maximum wind speed was 105 mph.

In Natchez, cleanup is ongoing. Trees still blocked portions of the street in the Glenwood Subdivision and on several streets behind Parkway Baptist Church.

Electricity was restored to all homeowners and businesses by Thursday morning, Entergy Customer Service Manager Stephen Caruthers said.

“Trees fell across the streets and tore a lot of wires down,” Caruthers said. “Streetlights kind of rank down on the list (of importance during an outage).”

But now that other customers have electricity, Entergy is focused on the streetlights, he said.

They should all be back on within a week, Caruthers said.