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EF0 tornado in Franklin County, Tennessee

Tornado August 20, 2025 · Franklin County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 on Sinking Cove Road causing several uprooted trees. It briefly tracked south-southeast uprooting additional trees, passing across Little Crow Creek before lifting

just northwest of The Bolo Club on Sinking Cove Road where no additional tree damage was noted. Damage was assessed via drone footage taken by Jackson County Alabama Emergency Management in

coordination with Franklin County Tennessee Emergency Management.

The wider storm

A cluster of thunderstorms developed during the early to mid afternoon hours. One of the thunderstorms spawned a rare August tornado, knocking down numerous trees along a short path along Little Crow Creek in Southern Franklin County.

Began near Sinking Cove (35.0051, -85.9612).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1287936. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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