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EF0 tornado in Lauderdale County, Tennessee

Tornado July 30, 2009 · Lauderdale County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

$2K

Crop damage

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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 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

A tornado briefly touched down southeast of Henning, just northwest of the intersection of Queens Crossing Road and John Moorer Road. The tornado lifted shortly after crossing Queens Crossing Road. A corn field was damaged. Several trees were damaged in the area as well.

The wider storm

A cold front approached the Mid-South during the afternoon hours of July 30th, 2009. A low pressure center developed along the front as the front moved into the area. The low pressure helped to spawn several tornadoes across the Mid-South. In addition, other storms produced damaging winds, large hail and flash flooding into the evening hours.

Began near Orysa (35.6394, -89.5335).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Shelby County 1 dead EF1 Henderson County EF0 Henderson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 190800. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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