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F2 tornado in Carroll County, Tennessee

Tornado November 9, 2002 · Carroll County, Tennessee

Rating

10.0 mi

Path length

220 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$500K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 220 yards (0.12 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

The tornado touched down near the town of Terry and tracked northeast. The tornado hit a mobile home park near the town of Leach. Two persons were killed in one of mobile homes in the park. Three houses, two businesses and a farm building were destroyed. Forty homes and other buildings were damaged.

Began near Terry (35.8667, -88.5667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Tipton County F2 Crockett County F1 Madison County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5323812. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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