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EF1 tornado in Perry County, Tennessee

Tornado February 5, 2008 · Perry County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
10.1 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

Some trees were down.

The wider storm

The Super Severe Weather Outbreak on Feb. 5, 2008 produced supercelluar thunderstorms, well in advance of a multicell line of thunderstorms. The whole episode lasted about 6 hours. This occurred ironically while many states, including Tennessee, were participating in the Super Tuesday Primary Election. Fortunately, polls had already closed in the mid state when these tornadoes struck.

Began near Flat Wood (35.4635, -87.9048).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Macon County 24 deadEF2 Hickman CountyEF2 Benton CountyEF1 Perry CountyEF1 Sumner CountyEF1 Benton CountyEF0 Sumner CountyEF0 Williamson CountyEF0 Perry CountyEF0 Hickman CountyEF0 Davidson CountyEF0 Dickson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 80987. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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