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F0 tornado in Smith County, Mississippi

Tornado April 6, 2005 · Smith County, Mississippi

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 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

This weak tornado was spotted by county officials as it briefly touched down between Center Ridge and Taylorsville. Damage was confined to limbs broken off some trees.

Began near Taylorsville (32.0333, -88.8833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Rankin County F1 Leake County F1 Smith County F1 Smith County F1 Rankin County F1 Scott County F1 Lawrence County F1 Simpson County F1 Clarke County F0 Covington County F0 Madison County F0 Lincoln County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5450752. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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