F2 tornado — Lafayette County, Mississippi

F2 tornado in Lafayette County, Mississippi

Tornado January 3, 2000 · Lafayette County, Mississippi

Rating

43.2 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

Injuries

$450K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Yalobusha County → Lafayette County → Union County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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 first developed just south of Highway 315 in the community of Hawkins Crossing and moved northeast across the northeast corner of Yalobusha county. The tornado continued into southwest Lafayette county and continued to travel northeast ending in Union county. In the town of Paris in the southwest part of the county, a frame house was lifted off its foundation with the back end of the house completely blown out. One person in the house was injured. A nearby house under construction was severly damaged. Several other homes in the area received minor damage and numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado also produced some damage in the towns of Denmark and Lafayette Springs.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5129728. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F2 tornado in Lafayette County, Mississippi

What the National Weather Service wrote

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