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EF2 tornado in Bedford County, Tennessee

Tornado April 11, 2008 · Bedford County, Tennessee

EF2

Rating

7.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$100K

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 EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 low end EF2 tornado leveled 2 barns, took part of a roof and the back walls of a residential home at 2309 Fairfield Pike. Trees were snapped and uprooted. Other homes had roof damage. Utility poles were bent along the path of the tornado.

The wider storm

There were six confirmed tornadoes on April 11, 2008. Large hail and straight line winds were also reported.

Began near Shelbyville (35.5348, -86.4421).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Lawrence County EF3 Giles County EF1 Dickson County EF1 Warren County EF1 White County EF0 Marshall County EF0 Coffee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 92464. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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