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EF0 tornado in Tipton County, Tennessee

Tornado October 21, 2019 · Tipton County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

7.6 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$55K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Tipton County → Mississippi County, Arkansas → Lauderdale County → Tipton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 touched down in farmlands near the Mississippi River and tracked intermittently northeast across the Mississippi into Arkansas breaking tree limbs and uprooting a few trees.

The wider storm

A cold front moved through during the early morning of October 21st and interacted with an unstable airmass in place over the Delta region. A line of showers and thunderstorms developed along the front. Several of the storms were severe with damaging winds and a few weak tornadoes.

Began near Richardsons (35.5095, -89.9776).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Shelby County EF0 Lauderdale County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 862103. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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