Tornado, Haywood
- When
- January 19, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Haywood County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.650, -89.220
Tornadoes in Tennessee, January 19, 1988
4 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
- 5
- Injuries
- 30
- Property damage
- $3.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Fayette
- When
- January 19, 11:52 AM CST
- Where
- Fayette County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 22 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Deaths
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 24 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 35.070, -89.450
Tornado, Gibson
- When
- January 19, 11:58 AM CST
- Where
- Gibson County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.820, -88.900
Tornado, Carroll
- When
- January 19, 1:05 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.070, -88.500
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Haywood | 1988-01-19 | Direct | |||
| Tornado, Gibson | 1988-01-19 | Direct |
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Alabama, January 19, 1988
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, January 19, 1988
- Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, January 19, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, January 19, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, January 19, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, January 19, 1988
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1988Every state in 1988This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Tennessee, 1988Warnings in Tennessee, January 1988
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: 10121593, 10121594, 10121595, 10121596.