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Tracking Atmospheric River for the West Coast; Space Weather Storming Continues

An atmospheric river will bring threats of gusty to high winds and heavy rainfall to California mainly Thursday into Saturday which may bring areas of flooding and wind damage. Heavy snow will be possible over the Sierra Nevada mountains Thursday into Friday associated with the atmospheric river. Minor to severe geomagnetic storming (space weather) is expected to continue into early Thursday. Read More >

On November 17th, a line of showers and thunderstorms, moving ahead of a cold front during the evening hours, weakened as it moved over southern Tennessee and northwest Alabama.  A small portion of the line broke, and a weak tornado touched down briefly in Lincoln County, Tennessee around the Howell and Petersburg areas. 

 

 Tornado Surveys Completed 

NWS Huntsville Meteorologists surveyed damage near Howell in Lincoln County, TN on November 18th.  The damage occurred on November 17th, between 937 PM CDT and 940 PM CDT. Below is a summary of the information about this tornado.

(Click on the entries under the last column for track information and to look at damage pictures)

 Detailed Summary
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EF Scale/Max Wind Speed (mph) 

Injuries/
Fatalities

Path Length (Miles)

Path Width (Yards) 

Starting Lat/.Long

Ending Lat/.Long

Track Images/Files

Howell, TN
(Lincoln)

EF-0

85 MPH

0/0

0.6

25

35.22198/
-86.64184

 35.22175/
-86.63181

KMZ - Points 

 
SPC Day 2 Outlook
Roof Damage to a trailer on Haysland Road Carport destroyed on Brown Teal Road