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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
750 PM CDT SAT OCT 24 2004


...MEMPHIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STORM DAMAGE SURVEYS OF TORNADIC 
   DAMAGE FROM OCTOBER 23RD ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH...


...MARSHALL COUNTY MISSISSIPPI TORNADO...

A TORNADO STRUCK NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF MARIANNA MISSISSIPPI AT 338 
PM. NO FATALITIES OR INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THIS TORNADO WAS 
RESPONSIBLE FOR UPROOTING SEVERAL TREES...ONE ROOF WAS PARTIALLY 
RIPPED OFF OF A HOUSE...ONE SHED OVERTURNED...TWO TRAILER HOMES 
PARTIALLY DAMAGED AND ONE ROOF TORN OFF A OUTHOUSE. THE MARIANNA 
TORNADO WAS RATED AS A F0 ON THE FUJITA TORNADO INTENSITY SCALE 
THROUGHOUT MUCH OF ITS LIFESPAN. HOWEVER...F1 DAMAGE WAS FOUND ABOUT 
1 1/2 MILES EAST OF THE TOWN OF MARIANNA WHERE THE GREATEST DAMAGE 
OCCURRED. THE PATH WAS APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES LONG AND EXTENDED TO 
THE EAST AND WAS APPROXIMATELY 75 YARDS WIDE AT ITS GREATEST 
WIDTH.   


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