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EF0 tornado in Bedford County, Tennessee

Tornado May 20, 2025 · Bedford County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

1.1 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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 near Bedford Lake Road near Shiloh, damaging trees. The tornado moved north-northeast, causing additional timber damage and damaging some farm structures along Bedford Lake Road and Hobbs Lane. The tornado then crossed into Coffee County at Sixteenth Model 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 Palmetto (35.5233, -86.2471).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Cumberland County EF0 Montgomery County EF0 Marshall County EF0 Montgomery County EF0 Lewis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1247202. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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