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EF0 tornado in White County, Tennessee

Tornado February 29, 2012 · White County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

17.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Death

$710K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Dekalb County → White County → White County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

An EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds around 85 mph touched down near the Macedonia community northwest of Sparta, then moved rapidly eastward across Highway 111 before ending east of Walnut Grove Road. A home and barn suffered roof damage on Linville Road, and several trees were snapped or uprooted along the path.

The wider storm

A strong storm system moving across the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys caused scattered strong to severe thunderstorms to develop across eastern portions of Middle Tennessee during the afternoon hours. Two supercell thunderstorms spawned four tornadoes resulting in a total of 3 fatalities and 7 injuries. Numerous other reports of wind damage and large hail were received.

Began near Macedonia (36.0213, -85.5298).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Cumberland County 2 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 362595. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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