EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Tennessee
Tornado March 2, 2012 · Lincoln County, Tennessee
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 the National Weather Service wrote
A tornado of EF-0 intensity with peak wind speeds of 65 mph began a short path in Boonshill. The tornado produced shingle damage at the Boonshill Community Center, uprooted eight medium to large trees and destroyed an hold barn along Delina Boonshill Road.
The wider storm
Southern middle Tennessee experienced a portion of a much larger outbreak of tornadoes and severe weather from the Ohio Valley south through the Tennessee Valley to the Gulf Coast in advance of a strong cold front. The storms came in two waves, one during the mid to late morning, and another throughout the afternoon hours. One of the morning supercell storms produced a tornado that made a very short track (1/4 mile) into far southwest Franklin County. This storm was one of a pair of tornadic supercells which tracked through Limestone and Madison Counties in north central Alabama.
During the early afternoon, numerous thunderstorms re-erupted across north Alabama which moved into southern Tennessee, including several supercells. Most of these storms were large hail producers, including up to baseball sized in Franklin County during the mid afternoon. One supercell produced an isolated tornado in the Boonshill community in Lincoln County. The cold front moved through during the mid to late evening, ending the threat of severe weather.
Began near Boonshill (35.2116, -86.7422).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 361151. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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