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F3 tornado in Dyer County, Tennessee

Tornado April 2, 2006 · Dyer County, Tennessee

Rating

18.0 mi

Path length

880 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$20.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 880 yards (0.50 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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

A tornado spawned from the same parent supercell that produced damaging tornadoes west of the Mississippi River moved across Dyer County during the evening of April 2nd. The most affected areas were Millsfield, Maxey, and Newbern. The F3 tornado resulted in sixteen fatalities and 70 injuries. Seventy-one homes were destroyed and one hundred eighty-two were damaged.

Began near Newbern (36.1167, -89.5167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Gibson County 6 dead F3 Gibson County 2 dead F2 Haywood County F1 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5506368. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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