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F2 tornado in Henderson County, Tennessee

Tornado April 7, 2006 · Henderson County, Tennessee

Rating

9.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Injuries

$2.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The tornado touched down near the Parker Cross Roads community and tracked northeast into Carroll County. Damage in Henderson County was limited to scattered tree damage. The tornado began as a F0 in Henderson County and strengthened into a F2 tornado as it moved towards Yuma in Carroll County.

Began near Parker Xrds (35.8000, -88.4000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F1 Henderson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5506838. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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