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EF0 tornado in Rutherford County, Tennessee

Tornado April 10, 2009 · Rutherford County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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, with estimated maximum wind speeds of 70 mph, pushed several oak trees down. Path length was 0.2 miles and it had a maximum width of 25 yards.

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 Rucker (35.7450, -86.3793).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Rutherford County 2 dead EF1 Benton County EF1 Sumner County EF1 Humphreys County EF1 Putnam County EF1 Rutherford County EF0 Cannon County EF0 Humphreys County EF0 Coffee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 164743. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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