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EF0 tornado in Marion County, Tennessee

Tornado March 2, 2023 · Marion County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.3 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

A swath of trees was blown down in Prentice Cooper State Forest. A survey of the area indicated that the damage was caused by a EF0 tornado, with a path width of approximately 100 yards and a length of approximately 500 yards.

The wider storm

A moist, southwesterly fetch aloft paralleled a stationary front draped across northeast Tennessee to produce areas of heavy rainfall and flooding, along with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Began near Guild (35.1014, -85.4777).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Hamilton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1081932. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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