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EF1 tornado in Tipton County, Tennessee

Tornado February 5, 2008 · Tipton County, Tennessee

EF1
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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

A tornado touched down near the Antioch-Cotton Road in the Hatchie River Bottom east of Covington destroying a trailer home. An adjacent home was also damaged. The tornado then lifted as it moved into the Hatchie River Bottoms.

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 Antioch (35.5774, -89.5241).

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 CountyEF0 Shelby CountyEF0 Tipton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 84599. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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