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EF0 tornado in Shelby County, Tennessee

Tornado February 5, 2008 · Shelby County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

4.9 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Shelby County → Fayette 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 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 tornado touched down in the Country Farms subdivision on Schaeffer Road in Eads. One home had minor damage to the roof, gutters and a gazebo. A few small trees in the area were uprooted or snapped. The tornado then traveled northeast and caused the former Eads Elementary School to lose a significant amount of roof shingles. The tornado then crossed Collierville-Arlington Road and snapped and uprooted several trees near the Cypress Creek Canal. The tornado then tracked into Fayette County.

The wider storm

A strong low pressure system tracked from Northern Arkansas into Southern Missouri during the evening hours of February 5th, 2008. Supercells developed out ahead of the system during the late afternoon into the early evening. The storms produced tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. As the supercells moved east during the evening, a cold front moved into West Tennessee. A squall line developed along the front and produced another round of large hail and damaging winds. The front continued to push east into the overnight hours.

Began near Eads (35.2040, -89.6670).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Hardin County 3 dead EF4 Madison County EF3 Madison County 3 dead EF2 Shelby County 3 dead EF2 Shelby County EF2 Madison County EF1 Weakley County EF1 McNairy County EF1 Tipton County EF1 Tipton County EF0 Tipton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 82781. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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