No severe threat today, but this sure is the time of year for it. On this date in weather history:
On May 5, 1999…Severe weather outbreak produces widespread wind damage (at least $4.7 million) across Middle Tennessee. Linden is hit by an F4 tornado, killing 3. FAA wind equipment at Nashville International Airport clocks a 99 mph wind gust. Seventy planes are damaged, and 2 hangars are destroyed. Debris and jet fuel are scattered across the runway, closing the airport for several hours. A total of 6 tornadoes strike, the 9th largest tornado outbreak in mid state history.
On May 5, 2003…Two waves of severe weather drop a total of 12 twisters across Middle Tennessee during the late evening and early morning, then from late morning through early afternoon. Two persons are injured in Lincoln County. Baseball-size hail is reported in Lutts (Wayne County). In addition, widespread flash flooding occurs as a result of excessive rainfall. Nashville measures 4.63″ of rain, which establishes a new one-day record for May. This is also the 6th largest tornado outbreak in mid state history.
Thanks to the Nashville NWS for the trivia.
The outbreak in 2003….did that happen during the week-long bout of severe weather we had? I remember being up in the early morning watching the weather and seeing this huge, red splatch of bad stuff go right over my house. We had water being blown under our back door, but thankfully no structural damage.
If I’m thinking about this right the May 5th, 1999 outbreak was when a Tornado hit my house in Madison at about 10:00 at night. May 5, 2003 is when a tornado hit in Murfreesboro at about 2:30 in the morning. I was involved in both of those outbreaks. I never realized it was on the same day.
Yes - that’s correct. It was pretty much a week of severe weather. It ended that Mother’s Day. I’ll never forget it. It started the day after my prom… a day I also had to work. Obviously, I wasn’t exactly rested, yet still was up till around 7:00 AM I believe watching News 2. Fortunately, Williamson County schools were closed because of the weather so I did get some rest, but man that was an incredible week. It finished off ironically enough with the tornado that hit just outside of Franklin destroying my prom date’s neighbors house and tearing up a good portion of her own property.
David F. that’s amazing, plain and simple.
Justin,
I think it’s just bad luck. I remember you posted once that the chance being hit by a tornado is like 1 in every 10 thousand years. I onder what the odds are that you get hit by a tornado on the same day just 4 years apart?
I think Jeff posted that but it’s a great statistic. The odds of being hit by a tornado are really small, but quite clearly odds and reality can clash. You’re definitely a statistical anomaly!
You said let people know on your newscast that something like this can happen. That’s another fact you can add to this date. That David Farris of Murfreesboro experienced the 9th and 6th largest tornado outbreaks in the midstate history, first hand.
David Farris from Murfreesboro, your a regular “Hurley” from Lost!
David F. - you remind me of the city in Kansas (Cordell) that was hit on May 20 three years in a row - 1916, 1917, and 1918.
So my advice - don’t move to Cordell… at least not in the month of May!
Thanks for the advice. I don’t think that city could handle the both of us.
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