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F3 tornado in Gibson County, Tennessee

Tornado April 2, 2006 · Gibson County, Tennessee

Rating

8.0 mi

Path length

880 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$15.0M

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

This tornado was the second of two F3 tornadoes that affected Gibson County on April 2nd. The tornado touched down just south of the Obion and Gibson County line and tracked southeast. The tornado lifted just east of Rutherford near the intersection of China Grove Rd and Highway 105. Two fatalities occurred as a result of this tornado along with six injuries. Approximately two hundred fifty homes were damaged and six were destroyed. Cars were tossed into open fields.

Began near Rutherford (36.1833, -89.0500).

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 F2 Haywood County F1 Fayette County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5506443. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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