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EF0 tornado in Trousdale County, Tennessee

Tornado November 18, 2017 · Trousdale County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

6.9 mi

Path length

125 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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

A high-end EF-0 tornado touched down just east of Highway 231 in Trousdale County causing weak tree damage before intensifying on Walnut Grove Road and Sulphur College Road where dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted. A few homes sustained some minor roof damage with a few outbuildings and barns severely damaged. Additional trees were downed on Highway 141 and Halltown Road before the tornado lifted. The tornado passed just 1.5 miles north of the city of Hartsville.

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms, known as a Quasi-Linear Convective System (or QLCS), moved rapidly across Middle Tennessee at 60 mph from west to east between 3 PM and 7 PM CST on Saturday, November 18, 2017. This line of storms produced widespread damaging winds in many counties generally along and north of the I-40 corridor. In addition to the damaging winds, the QLCS produced 4 confirmed tornadoes which damaged numerous homes and other buildings.

Began near Paynes Store (36.4100, -86.2600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Davidson County EF1 Davidson County EF0 Dickson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 724577. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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