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F2 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

Tornado November 24, 2004 · Smith County, Mississippi

F2
Rating
38.0 mi
Whole path
600 yd
Path width
4
Injuries
$7.0M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 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 touched down just south of Raleigh on State Highway 35 and tracked northeast to the Jasper Smith county line, 7 miles northeast of Sylvarena, where it then moved into Jasper county. Along its path it uprooted and destroyed a few thousand trees. Thirteen chicken houses were destroyed and six others were damaged. Three mobile homes and one residential home were destroyed along with five other homes sustaining major damage. Two people were injured when a mobile home was blown off its foundation and destroyed 10 miles northeast of Raleigh. At 210 AM the strong tornado moved into northwest Jasper county. The total path length of this tornado was 38 miles across Smith, Jasper and Newton counties.

Began near Raleigh (32.0167, -89.5333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Winston County 1 deadF3 Jefferson CountyF2 Lawrence CountyF2 Leake CountyF1 Lawrence CountyF1 Leake CountyF1 Lauderdale CountyF1 Lincoln CountyF1 Noxubee CountyF0 Warren CountyF0 Claiborne CountyF0 Copiah CountyF0 Hinds CountyF0 Madison CountyF0 Scott County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5425380. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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