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EF0 tornado in Marshall County, Tennessee

Tornado May 20, 2025 · Marshall County, Tennessee

EF0
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
$250K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 just west of Verona Caney Road in Cowden where it unrooted several trees and lifted a roof off of a barn. It continued northeast, crossed Big Rock Creek, and damaged the roof and some trees on a homestead. The tornado continued towards and crossed Wade Brown Road where it unrooted and snapped several more trees until it lifted north of Wade Brown Road. Damages are a rough estimate.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of thunderstorms impacted Middle Tennessee on May 20, 2025. The first round of thunderstorms was a decaying mesoscale convective system (MCS) that produced damaging winds which downed a few trees. The next round was discrete supercells which produced large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes. The largest hail reported during this event was in Williamson County where hailstones of two to three inches fell. Five tornadoes were confirmed during this event with the strongest being an EF-1 tornado in Cumberland County. The final round of thunderstorms was a quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) which produced additional damaging winds before all activity finally ended late in the evening.

Began near Verona (35.5141, -86.7715).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Cumberland CountyEF0 Montgomery CountyEF0 Montgomery CountyEF0 Bedford CountyEF0 Lewis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1247198. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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