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EF1 tornado in Putnam County, Tennessee

Tornado February 6, 2025 · Putnam County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
7.6 mi
Whole path
400 yd
Path width
1
Injury
$1.0M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

This EF-1 tornado touched down near Cyphers Drive in northern Putnam County where tree damage was found. As the tornado continued east, there was additional tree damage found along Cindy Drive along with roof damage and significant garage damage to homes on Malone Lane. The tornado then crossed into Overton County. 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 Cookeville Arpt (36.2683, -85.4768).

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 1227998. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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