Thunderstorm Wind, Dyer
- When
- June 18, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dyer County
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -89.400
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, June 18, 1970
5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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
5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Madison
- When
- June 18, 3:55 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Coordinates
- 35.780, -88.900
Tornado, Madison
- When
- June 18, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.600, -89.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Carroll
- When
- June 18, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -88.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Madison
- When
- June 18, 4:16 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Coordinates
- 35.580, -88.900
Thunderstorm Wind, Bedford
- When
- June 18, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Bedford County
- Coordinates
- 35.380, -86.500
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Pennsylvania, June 18, 1970
- Tornado and Hail in New York, June 18, 1970
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 18, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, June 18, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, June 18, 1970
- Hail and Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 18, 1970
- Damaging Winds in Delaware, June 18, 1970
- Hail in Nebraska, June 18, 1970
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 18, 1970
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 18, 1970
- Hail in Colorado, June 18, 1970
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 18, 1970
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1970Every state in 1970This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Tennessee, 1970
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: 10124700, 10124701, 10124702, 10124703, 10124704, 10124705.