Tornado, Overton
- When
- March 16, 4:05 PM CST to 4:10 PM CST
- Where
- Overton County, Livingston to 1 mi of Alpine
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 6 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $5.5 million
- Coordinates
- 36.380, -85.330
Tornado in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
Extensive damage in the Oak Grove and Alpine areas in the county. The Overton Co-op Gardening Center was destroyed and several businesses sustained minor damage.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $5.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS OHX wrote it up.
Extensive damage in the Oak Grove and Alpine areas in the county. The Overton Co-op Gardening Center was destroyed and several businesses sustained minor damage. 10 homes were destroyed, 12 homes heavily damaged, 46 homes received minor damage, and 6 mobile homes destroyed. Many trees, power lines and telephone transmission lines were down from Livingston to Oak Grove and Alpine. Some of the worst damage in Livingston was on Howard and Clark Street area.There was roof damage to a Pizza Hut, video store and shoe store. State Highway 52 was closed east of Livingston to the Pickett county border due to numerous downed trees and power lines. This made rescue efforts difficult. This was the worst tornado for this area since April 3-4, 1974. The only injury was one man who received a broken arm.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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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- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- Hail in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
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- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 16, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 16, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, March 16 to 17, 1996
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Tennessee, 1996Warnings in Tennessee, March 1996
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: 5548009.