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EF0 tornado in Meigs County, Tennessee

Tornado January 12, 2023 · Meigs County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.6 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

Injury

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Straight-line winds blew down trees and caused minor outbuilding damage near Decatur Creek and Goodfield Road. Then, a tornado developed just southwest of the corner of Sharp Road and Highway 58. It tracked northeast across Highway 58, and ended just south of Crestview Lane. Maximum winds were estimated at 75 mph.

The wider storm

Storms that formed into a line track from southwest to northeast up the Tennessee Valley. Within this line, some stronger embedded storms produced straight line wind damage and weak, short-lived tornadoes.

Began near Decatur (35.4993, -84.8038).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1070038. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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