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EF0 tornado in Davidson County, Tennessee

Tornado May 4, 2021 · Davidson County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

4.9 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down near Cotton Harris Road along the Cheatham/Davidson county line and moved eastward across northern portions of Joelton, blowing down dozens of trees and large tree limbs on Harper Road, Baxter Road, Wilkinson Road and Strawberry Hill Road. The tornado lifted east of Ridgewood Road. Total path length of this tornado was 4.91 miles, with peak winds of 80 mph.

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 Forest Grove (36.3534, -86.9124).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 963688. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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