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EF1 tornado in Montgomery County, Tennessee

Tornado February 24, 2018 · Montgomery County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
5.3 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$1.0M
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

An EF-1 tornado touched down near the Dotsonville community just east of Dotsonville Road and south of Bradley A. Martin Road then moved northeast. Trees were blown down and a few homes suffered minor roof damage on Gip Manning Road and Hunting Creek Road. Hundreds of trees were snapped or uprooted and 12 to 15 homes were damaged on Martin Road, Deepwood Drive, and Deepwood Trail with two homes severely damaged. Dozens of more trees were blown down east of Rustys Lane and on High Point Road. The tornado then crossed the Cumberland River, continuing to blow down trees before lifting north of Hilltop Road. Montgomery County Emergency Management estimated damage at 1 million dollars. The beginning point, ending point, and path of this tornado were adjusted slightly in May 2019 based on new high resolution satellite data available in Google Earth.

The wider storm

An intense storm system brought severe thunderstorms to northwest Middle Tennessee during the late afternoon and evening hours on February 24. One supercell thunderstorm developed along a warm front that moved northward across the area during the afternoon, spawning one tornado along the Kentucky/Tennessee border in Robertson County that then moved northeast into Kentucky. Later in the evening, a Quasi-Linear Convective System (QLCS) moved into the area from the west, spawning three more tornadoes across Montgomery and Robertson Counties which damaged dozens of homes and businesses and caused millions of dollars in damage. The QLCS also caused wind damage in several other counties.

Began near Dotsonville (36.4848, -87.4709).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 738339. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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