F3 tornado in Robertson County, Tennessee
Tornado April 16, 1998 · Robertson County, Tennessee
F3
Rating
7.2 mi
Path length
400 yd
Path width
$400K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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
Part of a roof was blown off the Jo Byrns School in Adams. Many trees fell on homes.
Began near Adams (36.5700, -87.1300).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5641020. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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