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EF0 tornado in Macon County, Tennessee

Tornado June 18, 2025 · Macon County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

4.3 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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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 EF0 tornado touched down north of Lafayette near Sparrow Road and continued northeast along Oak Knob Road where a path of timber damage occurred. The tornado also caused damage to a few residences and carports. Damage was more sporadic to the northeast, but continued to Akersville Road before dissipating. Damages are a rough estimate.

The wider storm

A line of thunderstorms moved through Middle Tennessee during the evening of June 18, 2025. Severe thunderstorm winds were common along the leading edge of this line of thunderstorms with several reports of downed trees received. Two EF-0 tornadoes were confirmed that occurred at approximately the same time. One was near Centerville in Hickman County while the other was north of Lafayette in Macon County.

Began near Green Vly (36.5962, -86.0543).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Hickman County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1254666. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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