EF0 tornado in Knox County, Tennessee

The tornado occurred three miles north of Farragut and was rated an EF0 with maximum winds around 80 mph. The maximum path width of the tornado was 70 yards while the length of the damage path extended for about a third of a mile. A few trees were downed along the damage path.

A deepening low pressure system moved northeast from the Mid Mississippi Valley through the Great Lakes initially driving a warm front northward through the Southern Appalachian region during the afternoon. The associated cold front swept across the area late Friday night. A one hundred knot upper level jet positioned over a 50 knot low level jet resulted in a strongly sheared environment. The intense shear and moderate instability produced an atmosphere conducive to long-lived, discrete, supercell thunderstorms. A total of 9 tornadoes ranging in intensity from EF-0 to EF-3 produced widespread damage and nearly 50 injuries to East Tennessee residents in the path of the storms.