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EF0 tornado in Overton County, Tennessee

Tornado December 6, 2021 · Overton County, Tennessee

EF0

Rating

2.6 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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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 EF0 tornado touched down west of Independence Road northeast of Allons and moved east across Mullins Lane and Stover Road blowing down trees and damaging the roofs of several barns. The tornado took a slight northeast turn across the intersection of Willow Grove Highway and Cherokee Lane where it blew the metal roof off of one home and damaged several outbuildings and barns. Numerous trees were downed in this area as well. Tree damage continued to the east before the tornado lifted west of Jaybird Lane. This tornado is the first December tornado on record for Overton

County.

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 Unity (36.4755, -85.3063).

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 Lawrence County EF0 Overton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 999292. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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