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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
445 PM CST FRI FEB 8 2008

...RESULTS OF TORNADO SURVEYS...
...UPDATED TO INCLUDE INTENSITY RATING FOR SUMNER TROUSDALE AND
MACON COUNTIES...

AFTER SURVEYING DAMAGE FROM THE FEBRUARY 5TH STORMS THAT STRUCK
MIDDLE TENNESSEE, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT FOUR INDIVIDUAL
TORNADOES OCCURRED ALONG A PATH EXTENDING FROM CLIFTON IN WAYNE
COUNTY TO NORTHEAST OF LAFAYETTE IN MACON COUNTY.

THE FIRST TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN OVER NORTHEAST HARDIN COUNTY, MOVED
NEAR CLIFTON, AND LIFTED NEAR FLATWOODS IN NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY.
A SECOND TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST PERRY COUNTY, A
FEW MILES NORTHEAST OF THE END OF THE PREVIOUS TORNADO TRACK. THIS
TORNADO REMAINED ON THE GROUND AS THE STORM MOVED ACROSS NORTHWEST
LEWIS COUNTY AND INTO HICKMAN COUNTY. THE TORNADO STRUCK THE BRUSHY
COMMUNITY, THEN TURNED TOWARD THE LEFT JUST EAST OF CENTERVILLE
BEFORE DISSIPATING.

THE FIRST TWO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN RATED AS EITHER EF-O OR EF-1.

A THIRD TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR THE END OF THE PREVIOUS TORNADO
TRACK EAST OF CENTERVILLE, AND PASSED THROUGH FAIRVIEW, IN
NORTHWEST WILLIAMSON COUNTY, BEFORE LIFTING NEAR THE DAVIDSON
COUNTY LINE. THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AS EITHER EF-1 OR EF-2.

THE SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD, ACROSS
NASHVILLE, BEFORE SPAWNING A FOURTH TORNADO, WHICH DROPPED DOWN ON
THE SOUTH SIDE OF GALLATIN, NEAR THE CUMBERLAND RIVER. THIS
TORNADO MOVED THROUGH CASTALIAN SPRINGS, EXTREME NORTHERN
TROUSDALE COUNTY, ACROSS MACON COUNTY, STRIKING THE NORTHWEST SIDE
OF LAFAYETTE, BEFORE MOVING INTO KENTUCKY, WHERE IT FINALLY LIFTED
NORTHEAST OF TOMPKINSVILLE. THE PATH LENGTH OF THIS TORNADO WAS
APPROXIMATELY 51 MILES.  MUCH OF THE DAMAGE ALONG THIS PATH WAS
RATED EF-2 ALTHOUGH SOME AREAS RECEIVED EF-3 DAMAGE.  THIS LONG
TRACK TORNADO HAD WINDS IN THE 110 TO 140 MPH RANGE AND CAUSED
DAMAGE THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE.


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