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EF2 tornado in Jackson County, Tennessee

Tornado February 6, 2025 · Jackson County, Tennessee

EF2
Rating
4.2 mi
Path length
650 yd
Path width
$1.0M
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 650 yards (0.37 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 EF-2 tornado touched down just east of Highway 56 north of Center Grove in Jackson County where dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted as well as some minor roof damage to a single family

home. The tornado continued east-northeast and caused significant roof damage to a manufactured home along JC Johnson Lane. From here, the tornado crossed Seven Knobs Road where it intensified, causing significant timber damage west of Blackburn Fork Road. Even more trees were snapped and uprooted as the tornado continued east along Lynn Hill Road. A barn was destroyed along Zion Road before dissipating just east of that area. Damages are a rough estimate.

The wider storm

Warm air and moisture advection into Middle Tennessee on February 6, 2025, helped to set the stage for thunderstorms to develop across the area during the afternoon and evening hours. These thunderstorms tended to track eastward along a boundary that had set up near the Tennessee and Kentucky border. One particular thunderstorm intensified rapidly as it tracked eastward towards the Cumberland Plateau. The thunderstorm interacting with the boundary combined with the terrain of the Cumberland Plateau likely allowed it to begin rotating and become tornadic. This one thunderstorm cycled several times and produced four tornadoes across Middle Tennessee.

Began near Center Grove (36.2793, -85.6123).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1227994. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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