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EF1 tornado in White County, Tennessee

Tornado April 11, 2008 · White County, Tennessee

EF1

Rating

1.8 mi

Path length

800 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Some homes were damaged. A power pole was snapped. One mobile home had roof torn off. Trees were snapped and uprooted.

The wider storm

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

Began near Onward (35.8167, -85.5349).

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 EF0 Marshall County EF0 Coffee County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 92477. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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