F1 tornado in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

Tornado November 10, 2002 · Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

Rating

30.5 mi

Whole path

400 yd

Path width

Death

$110K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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 Winston County, almost 8 miles northeast of Louisville around 7:20 PM. After moving through northwestern parts of Noxubee County, it briefly moved across extreme Southeast Oktibbeha County, resulting in the destruction of many trees. The tornado moved out of Oktibbeha County around 7:45 PM about 15.5 miles southeast of Starkville.

Began near Starkville (33.3000, -88.6333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Lowndes County F2 Attala County F1 Winston County F1 Lowndes County F1 Winston County F1 Madison County F1 Marion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5322918. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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