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EF1 tornado in Rutherford County, Tennessee

Tornado April 10, 2009 · Rutherford County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
3.7 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$60K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

The damage was limited to an area along Bradyville Pike, just south of

Manus Road. In this area, 4 homes were damaged along with a barn,

and several trees were snapped or uprooted. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind speed was around 100 mph, which corresponds to an EF-1 rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Path length was 3.7 miles and width was 100 yards.

Also...Minor damage to house at intersection of John Bragg Highway and Double Springs Road. Trees were pushed down at this location also.

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 Pleasant View (35.7653, -86.3415).

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 165093. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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