April 16th, 1998
On April 16, 1998…Lawrence County experiences the first F5 tornado in Tennessee’s history. Nashville is hit by 3 tornadoes, including an F3, which strikes downtown for the first time in more than 65 years. A total of 10 tornadoes are confirmed across Middle Tennessee. Surprisingly, there are only 4 fatalities across the mid state, with 105 injuries. Baseball-size hail is reported northwest of Ashland City (Cheatham County), damaging 35 to 50 homes. This is the 10th largest tornado outbreak in mid-state history.
Thanks to the Nashville NWS for this report.
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on April 16th, 2007 at 5:59 am
Hope we don’t have an outbreak this year.We don’t every year but you never know the way the weather has been lately anything goes.
on April 16th, 2007 at 7:58 am
I looked at that gfs loop. It shows the weather being warm for the rest of April, with some rain storms thought the month too. Has the hurricane prediction graph come out yet? Tells how many tropical storms, hurricanes, major hurricanes,ect are forecasted for 2007. Man, did they miss it big last year.
on April 16th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Yeah, I remember this outbreak like it was yesterday. It was about mid-day here in Centerville, I was at my grandmothers for the day. I was 11 years old. Channel 2 had their city cam on at the time the tornado was touching down. What a sight that was! It was a terrible day. I think that is the time I become really interested in meteorology. It was amazing to come over the horizon on I-40 and see all the boards and plastic over most of the windows at Tennessee Tower and all the other big buildings. But that is definatly a day I will not forget.
on April 16th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
dear news two what street did the 1998 tornado go on down town.and I wasn’t there one peron killed and was the tornado neare twentythirst avnue.and how bad did it damaged the nashville peforming art centerand.and how many tornadoes were there downtown.and what metirolgest were tracking the tornado on aprin 16 1998.and how many homes and hotels and buildings and other palces were damaged that day.and where theire any tornadoes in the green hills area indavidson county in nashville.