The Basement East was one of the music venues affected by the March 3, 2020, tornadoes.
The storm entered Tennessee at night. Its intensity was unexpected, and it cut across the landscape at 60 mph — fast for a supercell. By the time the storm dissipated on March 3, 2020, 10 distinct tornadoes had touched down, causing chaos over 100 miles. The winds peeled open warehouse roofs, lopped off church steeples, blasted through cinderblock walls and snapped thousands of trees. The tornadoes killed 25 people and destroyed more than 1,600 buildings.
A year later, WPLN News looked back. Read the complete package here.
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