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EF0 tornado in Lawrence County, Tennessee

Tornado May 14, 2024 · Lawrence County, Tennessee

EF0
Rating
3.6 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$250K
Damage as recorded
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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

An EF-0 tornado touched down on Paige Road north of Ethridge and moved eastward along E Edan Rd and Marcella Falls Road before lifting near the Giles County line. Damage primarily consisted of numerous trees that were snapped, uprooted, or lost significant branches. A few farm outbuildings were destroyed, and a few houses had damage to the roof or flashing peeled off. Damages are a rough estimate.

The wider storm

An active pattern across Middle Tennessee continued on May 14, 2024, as yet another line of thunderstorms moved across the area. The primary threat with these thunderstorms were damaging winds with several reports of downed trees received across Giles County, Marshall County, Bedford County, and Coffee County. Very slow-moving thunderstorms also produced flash flooding across portions of Stewart County. This activity was also responsible for one EF-0 tornado near Ethridge.

Began near Webber City (35.3553, -87.2837).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1168006. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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