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F0 tornado in Pickens County, Alabama

Tornado November 10, 2002 · Pickens County, Alabama

Rating

30.5 mi

Whole path

40 yd

Path width

Death

$110K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Oktibbeha County, Mississippi → Lowndes County, Mississippi → Pickens County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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

An F1 tornado moved out of Mississippi into Alabama about 4.3 miles west-southwest of Ethelsville. The weak tornado was the fifth tornado of the evening in Alabama and moved across mostly wooded and clear cut areas downing a few trees. The tornado damage in Alabama was only F0.Beg: 33 24.268/88 17.425 End: 33 24.682/88 15.352

Began near Ethelsville (33.4000, -88.2833).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5321525. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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