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EF0 tornado in Benton County, Tennessee

Tornado May 4, 2021 · Benton County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

3.1 mi

Path length

80 yd

Path width

$75K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 80 yards (0.05 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

A weak tornado uprooted trees and damaged a few outbuildings. A few homes and vehicles were damaged from trees falling on them. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.

The wider storm

A moist and unstable airmass in place across the Mid-South helped to fuel severe storms ahead of an advancing cold front and deep upper-level trough swinging into the Central Plains. A line of severe storms moved from Arkansas across northern parts of the Mid-South during the early morning hours of May 4th. There was widespread wind damage and a few weak tornadoes.

Began near Lick Creek (36.3170, -88.0420).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Obion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 957587. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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