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EF1 tornado in Claiborne County, Tennessee

Tornado April 26, 2007 · Claiborne County, Tennessee

EF1

Rating

4.6 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

Injuries

$425K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

An EF1 tornado touched down on Fords Chapel Road between New Hope Road and Barren Creek Road. A few trees were snapped in this area. The tornado tracked northeast along Barren Creek Road where multiple mobile homes were damaged, one blown over and destroyed. Tree damage was extensive along Barren Creek Road, with large trees both snapped and uprooted. Some homes were also damaged, with a patio roof blown back and shingles and siding blown off. The tornado tracked parallel to Highway 33, snapping trees and causing minor damage to homes in subdivisions on Mountain Road, Rutherford Drive, Harmon Road, and Rowe Street. The tornado crossed Highway 33 near the city limits of New Tazewell before dissipating.

The wider storm

A boundary across the region produced scattered supercell thunderstorms across the Cumberland Plateau. Damage was predominately caused by straight-line winds; however, an EF1 tornado tracked across Claiborne County for the second time this month. Its path was within one mile of the EF1 tornado path that occurred three weeks ago.

Began near Tazewell (36.4572, -83.5918).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 25724. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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