EF0 tornado in Meigs County, Tennessee

Tornado March 2, 2023 · Meigs County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

2.2 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

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

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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

This is the continuation of an EF0 tornado path that started in northeastern Hamilton County before it lifted just over the Meigs County line near the Highway 60 and

Highway 58 intersection in Georgetown. Mostly tree damage was observed along this

path but some minor structural damage was noted.

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 East View (35.3029, -84.9597).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Marion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1081936. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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