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F2 tornado in Winston County, Alabama

Tornado November 24, 2001 · Winston County, Alabama

F2
Rating
1.6 mi
Path length
70 yd
Path width
13
Injuries
$800K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 70 yards (0.04 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.

The wider storm

The Haleyville tornado first struck about 3 tenths of a mile inside Marion County just south of CR196 at 11:21 am. The tornado traveled on a northeast path moving directly through the center of downtown Haleyville severely damaging buildings including a shopping mall. The tornado continued traveling northeast through a residential and partially wooded area before ending about 7 tenths of a mile northeast of downtown Haleyville at 11:24 am.The tornado was rated an F2 on the fujita scale for tornado classification making it a strong tornado. Wind speeds associated with an F2 fall in the range of 113 to 157 mph, however, winds speeds probably remained on the low side of the range perhaps 115 to 130 mph. The tornado path was 1.9 miles long and approximately 70 yards wide. Winston County EMA reported 13 injuries with the tornado including one that was listed as serious.Beginning: 34 13.037/87 38.354 Ending: 34 13.939/87 36.667

Began near Haleyville (34.2167, -87.6333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Marion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5272276. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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