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F2 tornado in Nueces County, Texas

Tornado October 24, 2002 · Nueces County, Texas

Rating

2.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$75.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

One Confirmed fatality and many injuries. The Tornado was first indentified by the public approximately 8 miles south of the CCI airport. Most extensive damage reported across Del MAr College.

Began near (crp)corpus Christi (27.7333, -97.6167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Nueces County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5319564. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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