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EF1 tornado in Moore County, Tennessee

Tornado April 28, 2014 · Moore County, Tennessee

EF1

Rating

26.8 mi

Whole path

500 yd

Path width

Deaths

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 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

The tornado continued into southern Moore County, where it snapped and uprooted hundreds, possibly thousands more trees as it crossed the hills near Oak Grove Road, Rising Moon Road, Wet Prong/Ferris Creek Road and Short Creek Road. Structural damage was limited, aside from a few large sheds or barns being destroyed, minor damage to several single family houses, and more substantial roof, window, and porch damage to a house along Wet Prong Road near Alexander Lane. The damage in Moore County was deemed to be EF-1 intensity with peak winds of 110 mph. The tornado appeared to dissipate northeast of the intersection of Winchester Hwy and Coffee Creek Road in central Moore County.

The wider storm

A tornado outbreak occurred during the late afternoon and evening across the central Tennessee Valley on the 28th. Several cyclic supercells produced tornadoes, some of which were strong. There were also reports of flash flooding, especially in urban areas of Lincoln and Franklin counties, where up to 5 inches fell within two hours.

Began near Hurdlow (35.1738, -86.3697).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Lincoln County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 505229. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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