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EF0 tornado in Lawrence County, Tennessee

Tornado December 6, 2021 · Lawrence County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 brief EF0 tornado touched down along Key West Road, blowing down several trees. It moved east to Pond Field road, uprooting a few large trees. The tornado lifted just a few hundred yards to the east in an open field.

The wider storm

After some isolated thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the afternoon and evening hours on December 5, a line of severe thunderstorms moved across Middle Tennessee during the early morning hours on December. This line of thunderstorms produced 5 tornadoes and numerous reports of wind damage.

Began near Lodi (35.2340, -87.5440).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Bedford County EF0 Trousdale County EF0 Overton County EF0 Overton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 999287. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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