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EF0 tornado in Claiborne County, Tennessee

Tornado October 31, 2019 · Claiborne County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Intermittent wind damage occurred along the path

from New Tazewell to Tazewell before the tornado began a

continuous path near Hillside Drive. The path ended ENE of Carter

Lane. This tornado either damaged, downed, or completely uprooted

numerous trees. A couple barns and outbuildings were collapsed in

the vicinity of Cedar Fork Road and Carter Lane. In addition,

there was primarily roof damage to multiple structures in its

path.

The wider storm

A strong cold front moved through the Southern Appalachians around mid day impacting much of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia resulting in widespread wind damage. The air mass in advance of the front was associated with only weak instability. However, the wind field was very strong with favorable directional shear in a small part of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. In this environment, a weak, short lived tornado formed across Northeast Tennessee. Farther south, in Central East Tennessee, straight line winds downed a large tree onto a vehicle resulting in a fatality.

Began near Murphy Mill (36.4700, -83.5600).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 856622. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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