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F3 tornado in Calhoun County, Mississippi

Tornado February 24, 2001 · Calhoun County, Mississippi

Rating

8.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

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 began in rural Calhoun county and tracked northeast moving into Pontotoc county near Matthews.

Began near Bruce (34.4500, -88.7833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F3 Pontotoc County 6 dead F3 Union County F3 Lee County F3 Prentiss County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5232919. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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