EF3 tornado — Lawrence County, Tennessee

EF3 tornado in Lawrence County, Tennessee

Tornado April 11, 2008 · Lawrence County, Tennessee

EF3

Rating

10.3 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

Injury

$3.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF3 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF3 is severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, consistent with estimated gusts of 136–165 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

Many homes had roof damage especially on Coffee McGee Rd. An outbuilding was damaged on Crawfish Rd. Trees and utility poles were down along U.S. Highway 64 or Waynesboro Highway. Trees were down in Mt. Ararat Cemetery. The worst damage was a downed TVA electrical transmission tower east of U.S. Highway 43 on Hagan Rd. Metal debris was flung up and got stuck about a hundred feet above the ground in an electrical transmission tower. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted.

Newspaper article stated 56 homes had damage, with 12 homes being complete losses, and there were mainly mobile homes having comp;lete;

There was one minor injury.

The wider storm

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

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 92471. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF3 tornado in Lawrence County, Tennessee

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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