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EF0 tornado in Lewis County, Tennessee

Tornado May 20, 2025 · Lewis County, Tennessee

EF0
Rating
2.7 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A brief, weak tornado was observed on web cameras from Hohenwald. Locations were determined using WSR-88D radar imagery. No damage was noted from a ground damage assessment though the area impacted was inaccessible due to the road network.

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 Kimmins (35.6000, -87.5700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Cumberland CountyEF0 Montgomery CountyEF0 Marshall CountyEF0 Montgomery CountyEF0 Bedford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1250278. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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