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EF0 tornado in Scott County, Tennessee

Tornado April 8, 2021 · Scott County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

2.6 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

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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

This tornado path was inaccessible by automobile, and was determined by satellite imagery. No structural damage occurred along this path, but there was extensive tree damage.

The wider storm

A series of supercell thunderstorms moved across the Cumberland Plateau during the late afternoon hours of April 8. Large hail, damaging winds, and tornadoes were reported as the storms tracked toward the northeast. One of the supercells produced three tornado tracks as it moved through Scott County, with the strongest surveyed as an EF-2.

Began near Cordell (36.3112, -84.4537).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Scott County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 949306. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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