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Tornadoes snapped and felled trees across the region this weekend.
Tornadoes directly killed 16 people this year in Tennessee. In the spring, there were 10 deaths during the March 31-April 1 tornado event in West Tennessee. There were also five deaths during the storm from straight-line winds, but the National Weather Service separates fatalities by the specific hazard.
The Tennessee State Pipe Trades Association is giving more than 2,500 gallons of gas to people impacted by the tornadoes. The gas is helping fill the generators of homes from Southwest Kentucky to Northwest Tennessee. The trade union’s financial manager Eric Coons says they have also been assisting recovery efforts from the flood in Waverly. […]
When Hermitage resident Vesia Hawkins woke up at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, she opened Twitter and started following along with an account that had kept her company during storms past. @NashSevereWx, run by three men for whom weather is a passion but not a full-time job, has now been sharing tweet-sized weather updates for more than […]