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F2 tornado in Haywood County, Tennessee

Tornado April 2, 2006 · Haywood County, Tennessee

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$400K

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 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

A F2 intensity tornado briefly touched down in the Hickory Trail subdivision just west of the city of Brownsville. One home was completely destroyed. One home was moved off of its foundation. Twenty-four homes experienced partial roof damage.

Began near Brownsville (35.6000, -89.3000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Dyer County 16 dead F3 Gibson County 6 dead F3 Gibson County 2 dead F1 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5506442. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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