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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Tennessee

Tornado May 9, 2024 · Lincoln County, Tennessee

EF0
Rating
13.7 mi
Whole path
215 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lincoln County → Madison County, Alabama; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 215 yards (0.12 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 tornado touched down on South Patrick Road near Eastwood Estates causing structural damage to a manufactured home and uprooted numerous trees. It continued to the southeast across Old Quick Road, uprooting and splitting numerous additional trees.

The wider storm

A significant outbreak of tornadoes occurred in two waves during the evening of the 8th and early morning hours of the 9th. The first wave occurred as multiple supercell thunderstorms developed across southern middle Tennessee and far north central Alabama. These storms moved east during the evening hours, producing ## tornadoes in southern middle Tennessee.

A break in the activity was then followed by a line of thunderstorms that dropped southeast through southern middle Tennessee into north central and northeast Alabama after Midnight through the early morning hours. The line produced ## tornadoes in southern middle Tennessee, a couple of which continued into northeast Alabama.

Began near Lincoln (35.0105, -86.5639).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1181642. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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