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EF0 tornado in Claiborne County, Tennessee

Tornado January 11, 2020 · Claiborne County, Tennessee

EF0
Rating
3.3 mi
Path length
30 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

The tornado initially touched down on Pine Avenue to the northwest of New Tazewell blowing off half of the roof of a barn and uprooting or snapping several trees. The tornado then produced sub-severe damage until it uprooted a large pine tree onto a house on Cherokee Circle and damaged roof shingles and shutters of a house on Linden Street. The house on Linden Street had quarter of the roof shingles peeled off on the southeast corner along with two window shutters blown off the same side. More trees were downed near the end of the tornado path on Murphy Mill Road.

The wider storm

A very strong storm system with powerful wind energy and just enough instability for the formation of a line of showers and thunderstorms moved across the Southern Appalachian Region producing widespread; mainly straight line wind damage.

Began near Tazewell (36.4600, -83.5800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 864269. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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