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EF1 tornado in Humphreys County, Tennessee

Tornado April 10, 2009 · Humphreys County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
12.0 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
$200K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

An EF-1 Tornado, with maximum estimated wind speed around 100 mph, did extensive tree damage along Gander Branch Road and destroyed a barn and damaged a nearby house on Tennessee Ridge Road near Concord in Humphreys County. The tornado also damaged a barn and downed trees near Woolworth on Route 13, then lifted northeast of Silvertop in Houston County. The tornado had a path length of 12 miles and a maximum width of 300 yards.

Newspaper reported that emergency management officials stated that three homes and a mobile home received minor damage and hundereds of trees were rooted in Houston County. In Humpreys County, one house appeared to have major damage, one had significant damage, and a double wide mobile home was destroyed.

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 Concord (36.2017, -87.8132).

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 Sumner CountyEF1 Putnam CountyEF1 Rutherford CountyEF0 Cannon CountyEF0 Humphreys CountyEF0 Rutherford CountyEF0 Coffee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 164738. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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