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F2 tornado in Macon County, Tennessee

Tornado April 16, 1998 · Macon County, Tennessee

Rating

3.0 mi

Path length

800 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 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

Many trees and power lines were blown down. A roof was damaged to a house and also to a barn on White Springs Road from large tree branches.

Began near Willette (36.4300, -85.8300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F3 Dickson County F3 Robertson County F2 Montgomery County F0 Humphreys County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5641022. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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