Tornado, Benton
- When
- February 13, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -88.120
Tornadoes in Tennessee, February 13, 1952
7 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 48
- Property damage
- $1.1 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
7 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Davidson
- When
- February 13, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Davidson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.050, -87.030
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- February 13, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.230, -86.820
Tornado, Lincoln
- When
- February 13, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lincoln County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 7.4 mi
- Path width
- 350 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.220, -86.600
Tornado, Moore
- When
- February 13, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Moore County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 9 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -86.300
Tornado, Franklin
- When
- February 13, 10:40 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 11.4 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Deaths
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 35 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -86.280
Tornado, Grundy
- When
- February 13, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Grundy County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 5.1 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.250, -85.830
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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The same day elsewhere
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10126030, 10126031, 10126032, 10126033, 10126034, 10126035, 10126036.