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EF1 tornado in Lincoln County, Tennessee

Tornado May 9, 2024 · Lincoln County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
16.3 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lincoln County → Lincoln County → Madison County, Alabama → Franklin 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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tracked southeast across Flintville School Road and Terry Dunavan Road, producing sporadic tree damage. Hard and softwood trees were snapped and uprooted along these roads. Further southeast, the tornado crossed John Hunter Highway before crossing into far southwest Franklin County.

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 Flintville (35.0665, -86.3928).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1181826. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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