Tornado in Tennessee, June 30, 1998

Name: Tornado in Tennessee, June 30, 1998
Start: 1998-06-30T02:09
End: 1998-06-30T02:10
Location: Tennessee

June 30, 1998 · NWS OHX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $20,000
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.

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:10 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Davidson

When: June 30, 2:09 AM CST to 2:10 AM CST
Where: Davidson County, Oglesby to 1 mi S of Oglesby
Rating: F1
Path length: 1.2 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 36.050, -86.750

The tornado hit south Nashville, in the Oglesby section of town. The tornado began on Hill Road and ended near the intersection of Edmonson Pk and Old Hickory Boulevard. The tornado damaged 2 roofs and snapped trees at the Brentwood Downs Apartments. A lady at the apartment complex saw the tornado.

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

Every storm in Tennessee in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Tennessee, 1998 Warnings in Tennessee, June 1998

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: 5659218.