Overview of the Jan 29-30th Severe Weather Outbreak

  This past Tuesday Night into Wednesday Morning a very potent squall line moved through the area.  This squall contained embedded bow echos and supercells, which produced widespread wind damage and tornadoes in the area.

- 4 tornadoes occurred in the area
- The first tornadoes in January history touched down in Christian and Muhlenberg County
- At least 14 tornadoes touched down in Middle TN
- The southern outskirts of Hopkinsville and the Penrod community in far Southern Muhlenberg Community were hit hardest
- No fatalities in Western KY
- 1 wind fatality in Middle TN
- Temps were at 70 degrees across the area at night in January before the line moved through
- This was a low instability(300-500CAPE) and high shear event
- The largest January tornado outbreak in the region(KY/TN)

One of these rotating bow echos produced an EF-2 and EF-1 Tornado in Christian County and produced an EF-2 tornado in Penrod in far southern Muhlenberg County.  Damaging winds up to 110MPH also occurred in Christian, Todd, and Southern Muhlenberg County as well.

The highlighted storm in this picture was the storm that produced significant damage in the Coble TN area(Hickman County TN).