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EF0 tornado in Henderson County, Tennessee

Tornado July 30, 2009 · Henderson County, Tennessee

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$25K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 near Webb Road in Wildersville. Shingles were blown off a church roof. Significant structural damage occurred to a shed on the church property. Several tree limbs in the area were knocked down and one power pole was broken.

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 Wildersville (35.7811, -88.3577).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Shelby County 1 deadEF1 Henderson CountyEF0 Lauderdale County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 190848. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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