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EF0 tornado in Lauderdale County, Tennessee

Tornado October 21, 2019 · Lauderdale 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

A weak tornado crossed the Mississippi River and then crossed into Tipton County.

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 Fulton (35.5449, -89.9099).

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 868549. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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