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EF1 tornado in Sumner County, Tennessee

Tornado April 10, 2009 · Sumner County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$200K
Damage as recorded
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 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

Damage occurred near the intersection of Highways 25 and 76. Four frame homes, per newspaper report, and a mobile home suffered significant roof damage along Creekmore Road. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted. Per newspaper report, numerous power lines were downed.

The path length of the tornado was 0.6 mile with a maximum path width of 50 yards. The damage was rated EF-1 in intensity, with maximum wind speeds around 100 mph.

The wider storm

A strong upper level storm system moved across Middle Tennessee triggering early morning severe thunderstorms along with a line of severe thunderstorms that moved west to east across the entire mid state from the late morning hours through mid afternoon. This resulted in 10 tornadoes across the mid state, with one being an EF4 Tornado in Murfreesboro in Rutherford County.

Began near Johnsons Xrds (36.4930, -86.5861).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Rutherford County 2 deadEF1 Benton CountyEF1 Humphreys CountyEF1 Putnam CountyEF1 Rutherford CountyEF0 Cannon CountyEF0 Humphreys CountyEF0 Rutherford CountyEF0 Coffee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 164622. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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