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F3 tornado in Dorchester County, Maryland

Tornado April 28, 2002 · Dorchester County, Maryland

Rating

18.0 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$150K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

Tornado path length 16-18 miles. One house and several outbuildings destroyed near Hip Roof Road. Most of the damage along tornado path rated F0 to F1.

Began near Taylors Is (38.4200, -76.3000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Wicomico County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5293530. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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