F1 tornado in Claiborne County, Mississippi

Tornado February 26, 1998 · Claiborne County, Mississippi

Rating

13.0 mi

Path length

1,232 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,232 yards (0.70 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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 formed in the rotating comma head of a bow echo. The tornado moved through a mostly wooded area and blew down hundreds of trees. It took much of the day to remove trees from the Natchez Trace Parkway before traffic could resume. One house had a tree fall on it and a mobile home had the major damage.

Began near Port Gibson (31.9500, -90.9800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Jones County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5634785. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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