F3 tornado — Gibson County, Tennessee

F3 tornado in Gibson County, Tennessee

Tornado April 2, 2006 · Gibson County, Tennessee

Rating

31.0 mi

Whole path

880 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$26.5M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Gibson County → Weakley County → Carroll County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

This tornado was also spawned by the same supercell that produced the killer Dyer County tornado. The F3 tornado tracked east across Gibson County. The tornado then continued east into Weakley County. The hardest hit area was the city of Bradford. There were six fatalities in Bradford along with forty-four injuries. Approximately two hundred fifty homes were damaged and seventy-five homes were destroyed. The Bradford Police Department was completely destroyed. Other businesses were also severely damaged.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5506369. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F3 tornado in Gibson County, Tennessee

What the National Weather Service wrote

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