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EF2 tornado in Obion County, Tennessee

Tornado March 9, 2017 · Obion County, Tennessee

EF2

Rating

10.2 mi

Whole path

250 yd

Path width

$1.3M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Fulton County, Kentucky → Obion County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

A tornado tracked from the community of Hickman Kentucky southeast into northern Obion county. Damage was sustained to large grain bins, several small barns and outbuildings and a few homes. The peak winds in Obion County were estimated at 100 mph.

The wider storm

A very unstable atmosphere provided for multiple rounds of thunderstorms of which several were severe throughout the 9th and early morning of the 10th of March.

Began near Woodland Mills (36.5033, -89.0837).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Carroll County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 684719. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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