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F1 tornado in Fayette County, Tennessee

Tornado January 17, 1999 · Fayette County, Tennessee

Rating

12.0 mi

Whole path

350 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$405K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 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

The tornado started in extreme southeast Fayette county and moved northeast. Fourteen homes including several mobile homes were destroyed and another 27 homes were damaged near Saulsbury. More than thirty power poles were knocked down.

Began near La Grange (35.0200, -89.1800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F4 Madison County 6 dead F3 Crockett County F3 Haywood County F2 Lauderdale County F1 Carroll County 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5685492. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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