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F2 tornado in Leake County, Mississippi

Tornado November 10, 2002 · Leake County, Mississippi

Rating

10.0 mi

Whole path

1,000 yd

Path width

$135K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Attala County → Leake County → Attala County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,000 yards (0.57 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

This tornado originally developed in Attala County, about 9.5 miles south of Boyette. It moved across rural areas of northern Leake County, damaging a house and a barn, as well as uprooting hundreds of trees. The tornado moved back into Attala County about 5 miles north-northeast of Thomastown (0.5 mile south of McVille in Attala County).

Began near Thomastown (32.9167, -89.7167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Lowndes County F1 Lowndes County 1 dead F1 Winston County F1 Lowndes County F1 Winston County F1 Madison County F1 Marion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5322914. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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