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EF0 tornado in Jefferson County, Tennessee

Tornado January 12, 2023 · Jefferson County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

The tornado touched down near Harrison Ferry Road and moved east-northeast

toward Highway 25E. It crossed the highway, resulting in downed trees and

power lines before dissipating on the east side of Highway 25E. Maximum estimated wind speeds were around 80 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 Douglas Lake North (36.0514, -83.2732).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Meigs County EF0 Jefferson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1070040. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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