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EF0 tornado in Coffee County, Tennessee

Tornado April 11, 2008 · Coffee County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

An EF0 tornado struck northwest Coffee County. A tractor trailer truck was blown on its side as it was heading westbound on Interstate 24 and at mile marker 99.

The wider storm

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

Began near Beech Grove (35.6159, -86.2404).

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 EF2 Bedford County EF1 Dickson County EF1 Warren County EF1 White County EF0 Marshall County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 92465. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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