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EF0 tornado in Lauderdale County, Tennessee

Tornado October 21, 2019 · Lauderdale County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

7.3 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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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

Tornado touched down in southern Lauderdale County and tracked northeast toward Ripley, lifting before reaching the town. Large tree limbs were broken and a few trees were uprooted. There was minor roof damage to one home.

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 Pleasant Hill (35.6811, -89.6854).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Shelby County EF0 Tipton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 862106. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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