1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 07:25 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
5 homes were damaged and a barn was destroyed. Path length and width of tornado are approximations.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Tennessee in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Tennessee, 1997Warnings in Tennessee, March 1997
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: 5595593.