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EF0 tornado in Coffee County, Tennessee

Tornado April 10, 2009 · Coffee County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

Storm Chaser video showed brief touchdown in a field just east of Interstate 24.

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 Hillsboro (35.4177, -86.0075).

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 Rutherford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 168450. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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