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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN
143 PM EDT FRI APR 27 2007

...NWS SURVEYS CLAIBORNE COUNTY DAMAGE...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS SURVEYED THE DAMAGE THAT 
OCCURRED IN CLAIBORNE COUNTY NEAR NEW TAZEWELL YESTERDAY EVENING. IT 
WAS DETERMINED THAT THE DAMAGE WAS THE RESULT OF A TORNADO...WITH A 
RATING OF EF-1. ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEEDS WERE AROUND 100 MPH. 
THE PATH OF THE TORNADO WAS APPROXIMATELY 4.6 MILES LONG...WITH A 
MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH AROUND 75 YARDS. 6 INJURIES WERE REPORTED. 

THE DAMAGE PATH BEGAN ON FORDS CHAPEL ROAD BETWEEN NEW HOPE ROAD AND 
BARREN CREEK ROAD. A FEW TREES WERE SNAPPED IN THIS AREA. THE 
TORNADO TRACKED NORTHEAST ALONG BARREN CREEK ROAD...WHERE MULTIPLE 
MOBILE HOMES WERE DAMAGED...ONE BLOWN OVER AND DESTROYED. TREE 
DAMAGE WAS EXTENSIVE ALONG BARREN CREEK ROAD...WITH LARGE TREES BOTH 
SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. SOME HOMES WERE ALSO DAMAGED...WITH A PATIO 
ROOF BLOWN BACK AND SHINGLES AND SIDING BLOWN OFF. THE TORNADO 
TRACKED PARALLEL TO HIGHWAY 33...SNAPPING TREES AND CAUSING MINOR 
DAMAGE TO HOMES IN SUBDIVISIONS ON MOUNTAIN ROAD...RUTHERFORD 
DRIVE...HARMON ROAD...AND ROWE STREET. THE TORNADO CROSSED HIGHWAY 
33 NEAR THE CITY LIMITS OF NEW TAZEWELL BEFORE DISSIPATING. 

THIS IS THE SECOND TORNADO TO AFFECT CLAIBORNE COUNTY DURING APRIL. 
A TORNADO...RATED AN EF-1...CAUSED DAMAGE NEAR NEW TAZEWELL ON APRIL 
3...AND A PORTION OF THE TRACK OF THAT TORNADO CROSSED THE PATH OF 
YESTERDAY'S TORNADO. 

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