April 16th

April 16th a day of two main events that effected lives in one event worldwide. The Main purpose of the blog is talk about the weather event that struck Middle Tennessee and other states around the South and Midwest. You cant really talk about this date without giving a feeling about what occured a year ago today.

Not to go into too much I dont know about. Tomm April 16th is a day of mourning for the Virginia Tech victims in the terrible tragey of the Virginia Tech shootings. This is the worst and biggest spree murders in US history. So take that into consideration and take a moment of slience

The Weather Aspect.

Tomm it seems like yesterday hearing reports about how downtown Nashville took an direct hit from a tornado. Hearing that 7 people lost thier lives and over 125 million dollars of damage was down across the Voulnteer State. You may remeber News Channel 5 coverage of the tornado as they got knock off the air as the tornado passed thu the station. Hearing what is today the TN Titans and hearing cranes blew down. Hearing over 35 buildings being red tagged meaning inhabitatble and unstable to live in. Or hearing about a F5 something you mean of heard in the plains only, but cant believe it is down in Tenneesee. A F5 tornado is the highest tornado rating of the Fujita Scale, and even when it turned into the revised EF Scale. Also more tornadoes hit Mid TN excpet the forgotten F5 and 3 Nashville area twisters. Including tornadoes that hit Adams, Byrdstown, Tidewell in Mid TN.
Tornadoes

NASHVILLE TORNADOES
A long tracked supercell formed into Davidson COunty. The cell dropped what News Channel 5 wants to look for first a wall cloud. Outside 5 studios the wall cloud isnt all that is found. The actual tornado was observed by News Channel 5. The 1st of 3 tornadoes did the most damage it was rated at F3 several buildings in Nashville were damaged and destroyed and inhibitable. The tornado first otuched down on Old Hickory Blvd in Belleve area in Sw Davidson county went thu Belle Meade area whichi t started to gain stength went on US 431 or Hillsburo Pike just passing north of Green Hills Mall went thu Sevier Park thu the state fairgrounds area damaging and disabling 3 out of 10 cranes in the TN oilers stadium. It destryoed and red tagged a bar and caused on fatality with a ROTC student in Centenial Park was praticing when a tree fell on him. It moved thu DOnelson and the Hermitage estate where half tress were uprotted including ones over 200 yrs old osme our 7th president planted. A massive replanting effort was done and went thu Wilson and Trousdale counties and damging business in Mount Juilet.
Two F2 tornados touched down. One touched down on in Harding Pike area. ANother long tracked tornado F2 went south of Nashville in Airport. in Hermitage and into NW side of Lebanon.
It was one of the few times a big city got hit by a tornado.

FORGOTTEN LAWRENCE COUNTY F5
This was a very long tracked tornado. In which a sig on radar was that of a classic hook echo at the bottom. This image can be viewed in the links area. This tornado tracked soth of Clifton to SE of Waynesburo into Lawrence and Giles and Maury county. Damage was in the millions in all 4 counties. Wayne County damage was 4 million and sadly the 3 fats in this tornado were all in Wayne County. Homes got cleared off thier foundation and lumber yard was destryoed and so was several homes and moblie homes.
The section that made history in Lawrence County the tornado went up to the strongest ever an F5. Fine and well protected homes some of brick structures were complety leveled and destroyed. Grass was sucked out of the ground vechiles like sedans got lunged nad thrown for yards on in. Sedans and other vechiles were used as missles. The quick response and warning system helped saved lifes. Dirt was stripped to bare earth from the ground. In NW gGles COunty Gas tanks were ruptured and an handful of homes and mblie homes were complety destroyed. Finally the tornado moved into Maury COunty to Culleola-TIce Town area. IT was weaker that in was previsouly but still a very nasty and respectable tornado. 18-wheller was blown over homes heavily damaged.

OTHER EVENTS (tornadoes, hail, wind)
- A F3 tornado destroyed over 60 homes and busineess and moblie homes in Byrdstown TN (pickett county) 4 injuries but were ok. This occured around 4:45pm after the 3 Nashville Tornadoes
- A F3 tornado struck Dickson COunty TN early in the morning. At around 6:50am near Tidwell community 40 homes and moblie homes recieved some degree of damaged. Dickson Convection Center/Flea Port US lost a wall/roof/
-A F3 tornado hit Montoermy/Robertson county area. In Port Royal/Adams TN area. Roof was blown of JO Byrns school in Adams and home damaged in Prot Royal/Adams area this was another early morning tornadoes.
In West KY flash flooding and river flooding issues had to be dealt with. A downburst of 100 mile an hour winds hit Hopkinsville KY area. This storm formed golf ball sized hail in Todd County then produced a mega hailstorm in Lewisburg/Bowling Green Area and the start of an deadly F3 tornado across SOuth Central KY.
Basebail sized hail fell in Ashland City TN and was reported to do some damage to homes.
LESSONS
1) Good TV Mets will try and give best coverage poss. (ex: Ron Howdes from News Channel 5 got the station back as soon as poss and tracked on intellcast the F5 Tornado in Lawrence COunty.
2) Violent tornadoes aren't jsut Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas things. They occur in other states to including Kentucky and Tennessee. Several F4/F5 tornadoes have occured in the Dixie Alley area in the past several decades.
3) You must be on your toes on these types of days. Warnings will fly out quickly and you must respond. The Forgotten TN F5 could of been a lot of worse had the people hadn;t taken cover from it .
4) Big one how matter how small or big your town is it can get hit by a tornado. Jst becuase Nashville is a big city doesnt mean tornadoes avoid it. BIg citites and MEtropolitan areas can and in a few tiems have been know to take hits from tornadoes.
5) ANy myth should of been debunked. Byrdstown TN is higher in elevation than most of Mid TN but it still got hit. East TN locations got hit. So elevation or special river of lake doesnt protect you from a tornado.


2 questions 4/16/1998 10 yr anniversery quiz answers at bottom dont cheat

1) Which Tn town of city did not get hit on 4/16/1998 A) Nashville B) Byrdstown C) Cookeville D) Cleveland

2) Which of following is false about 4/16/98 A) There was limited instablity B) It was a High Risk day C) Tornadoes occured in IL on previous day D) AN F5 occured in TN
LINKS:
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~340667
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~340657
http://web.archive.org/web/20070429224632/www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/surveys/nash_tor.htm
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~340654
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~340602
http://web.archive.org/web/20061231093237/sphs.angeltowns.net/spcproductarchive/highrisk/past/041698otlk.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070217035745/www.srh.noaa.gov/bna/research/f5.htm
http://www.news2wkrn.com/weather/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBMOuMWzM0...feature=related
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwevent~ShowEvent~340660

answers are A,C