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F1 tornado in Hickman County, Tennessee

Tornado May 31, 2001 · Hickman County, Tennessee

Rating

0.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$20K

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 F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

Most of the destruction was on Bee Branch Road. A mobile home was destroyed. It sat on a ridge located at 10095 Bee Br. Rd. The storm also destroyed an empty trailer. The trailer was used as a work area. 2 barns were destroyed. A calf was hurled 100 yards, and a white deck chair was carried a quarter of a mile from the property of Mr. and Mrs. Buchanon on Bee Branch Road.

Began near Bon Aqua (35.9333, -87.4000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F2 Cannon County 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5249656. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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