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F2 tornado in De Soto County, Mississippi

Tornado November 24, 2001 · De Soto County, Mississippi

Rating

6.0 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.9M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 began just southwest of Lewisburg in eastern De Soto county and moved northeast. Nineteen homes were destroyed and 119 homes were damaged. Numerous trees were also knocked down.

Began near Lewisburg (34.8500, -89.8333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Quitman County 3 dead F1 Coahoma County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5275985. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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