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EF1 tornado in Robertson County, Tennessee

Tornado April 28, 2026 · Robertson County, Tennessee

EF1

Rating

1.6 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Davidson County → Robertson 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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

This is a continuation of the EF-1 tornado that began in Davidson County. As the tornado entered Robertson County, it followed the southern edge of the valley along Browns Lake Road where the most extensive damage occurred with hundreds of trees snapped and uprooted. Most structural damage was caused by falling trees or winds north of the circulation. The tornado damaged around five barns and outbuildings west of Browns Lake before lifting near the lake. Damages are a rough estimate.

The wider storm

Two rounds of severe thunderstorms impacted Middle Tennessee late in the evening of April 27, 2026, and into the early morning hours of April 28th. A line of thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front, but the first round was scattered thunderstorms ahead of this line. The thunderstorms preceding the main line produced large hail and damaging wind gusts while the line of thunderstorms was mainly responsible for scattered wind damage. An EF-1 tornado was confirmed in northern Davidson and southern Robertson counties. The strongest straight-line wind damage was reported in northern Lawrence County where numerous downed trees and other structural damage was found in the Summertown area.

Began near Ridgeton (36.3510, -86.8260).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1322385. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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