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EF0 tornado in Sumner County, Tennessee

Tornado May 4, 2021 · Sumner County, Tennessee

EF0
Rating
11.9 mi
Whole path
50 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Sumner County → Sumner County → Trousdale County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 EF-0 tornado began on the southeast side of Gallatin near Coles Ferry Road and moved eastward, blowing down numerous trees on Steam Plant Road, Newton Lane, Hidden Cove Road, Cairo Road, and Lakeview Road. Trees continued to be blown down as the tornado passed south of Castalian Springs on East Robertson Road, Harsh Lane, Macedonia Road, and Corum Hill Road before the tornado dissipated.

The wider storm

A QLCS (Quasi-linear Convective System) moved across Middle Tennessee during the early morning hours of May 4, 2021. This line of thunderstorms spawned a total of 14 EF-0 tornadoes throughout Middle Tennessee, at least 4 of which were captured on video by local residents. In addition to the tornadoes, significant straight-line wind damage also affected many other areas of Middle Tennessee, and was just as damaging as the tornadoes in many cases. Thankfully, no injuries or deaths were reported.

Special thanks goes to Middle Tennessee emergency management, tSpotter coordinators, and the public for their assistance and helpful information with these difficult and lengthy storm surveys.

Began near Gallatin Muni Arpt (36.3567, -86.4174).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

12 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Robertson CountyEF0 Sumner CountyEF0 Trousdale CountyEF0 Macon CountyEF0 Dekalb CountyEF0 Dekalb CountyEF0 White CountyEF0 Cheatham CountyEF0 Davidson CountyEF0 Robertson CountyEF0 Robertson CountyEF0 Robertson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 957715. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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