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F3 tornado in Weakley County, Tennessee

Tornado November 27, 1994 · Weakley County, Tennessee

Rating

6.0 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

Injuries

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado started about one mile southwest of Latham and travelled northeast. Twenty-one homes were damaged. Three houses and three mobile homes were completely destroyed. Numerous barns, sheds and outbuildings were damaged or destroyed.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10349041. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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