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EF0 tornado in Carroll County, Tennessee

Tornado March 9, 2017 · Carroll County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

Tornadic damage was evident along Anark Road approximately a half mile east of Highway 22. Intermittent damage to trees and stroage buildings was noted along the track. The last damage was observed east of Walker Hill Road and north of Pate Road. Peak winds estimated at 70 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 Concord (35.9077, -88.3921).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Fulton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 684737. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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