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The National Weather Service in Nashville said Monday afternoon that radar was showing a tornado moving across eastern Wilson County, north of Highway 70.
National Weather Service Nashville is a weather forecast office responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 38 counties in Middle Tennessee.The office is in charge of weather forecasts, warnings, and local statements as well as aviation weather.
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
A small but deadly tornado outbreak affected West and Middle Tennessee on the night of March 2 and into the morning of March 3, 2020, including a high-end EF3 tornado that hit Nashville and Mount Juliet, becoming the 6th costliest tornado in United States history, and a violent EF4 tornado that impacted areas in and just west of Cookeville.
Multiple locations throughout the Plains and Midwest saw 90-mile-per-hour (140 km/h) winds, which caused significant damage to roofs and buildings. These storms were deemed to be life-threatening by the National Weather Service (NWS). [73] [74] One person died in Leavittsburg, Ohio, when a tree fell on their home. [75]
A destructive tornado outbreak impacted the Midwestern United States and Tennessee River Valley on November 15, 2005. It occurred along a cold front separating warm, humid air from the southeast from cold Arctic air to the north and northwest. 49 tornadoes were confirmed in the central United States in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee over ...
The 2020 Cookeville tornado was an extremely destructive and fast-moving tornado that tracked across Putnam County, Tennessee, directly impacting the cities of Baxter and Cookeville in the early morning hours of March 3, 2020.