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F3 tornado in Maury County, Tennessee

Tornado April 16, 1998 · Maury County, Tennessee

Rating

69.4 mi

Whole path

800 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$13.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wayne County → Lawrence County → Giles County → Maury County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 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

The heaviest damage was in the Culleola-Tice Town area. An 18 wheeler was blown over. Many homes were damaged, trees and power lines were down. Several trailers were destroyed or damaged.

Began near Culleoka (35.4200, -87.0700).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5641234. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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