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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Tennessee

Tornado February 5, 2008 · Fayette 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

The tornado tracked from Shelby County and produced damage on Donelson Road where one house was stripped of some siding and roof shingles. A couple of windows were also blown out. Several trees were snapped 10 to 20 feet above the ground and many other trees were uprooted. The tornado then tracked northeast and produced minor damage in the Orr Road and Harrell Road area before lifting.

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 Hickory Withe (35.2336, -89.6379).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Hardin County 3 deadEF4 Madison CountyEF3 Madison County 3 deadEF2 Shelby County 3 deadEF2 Shelby CountyEF2 Madison CountyEF1 Weakley CountyEF1 McNairy CountyEF1 Tipton CountyEF1 Tipton CountyEF0 Tipton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 82783. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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