F2 tornado — Hand County, South Dakota

F2 tornado in Hand County, South Dakota

Tornado August 24, 2006 · Hand County, South Dakota

Rating

24.5 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

Injuries

$15.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 supercell thunderstorm tracking southeast produced a fifth tornado in Hand county. The tornado touched downed south of Vayland and tracked southeast and into Beadle county. See storm data for southeast South Dakota. The tornado formed in a heavily wooded area tracking along a county road producing F1 damage to several farmsteads. A mobile home was flipped and destroyed. A grain storage building was flipped onto a car. Several homes had significant roof and window damage. Numerous trees were snapped. As the tornado crossed into Beadle county it was producing F2 damage.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5533109. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F2 tornado in Hand County, South Dakota

What the National Weather Service wrote

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