Tornado, Polk
- When
- May 7, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Polk County, Ducktown to 2 mi E of Ducktown
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.030, -84.420
Tornado in Tennessee, May 7, 1998
The same severe thunderstorm that spawned the tornado in Bradley county dropped another here in Polk County. A number of houses were damaged, as well as numerous trees and powerlines downed.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- $50,000
- 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 MRX wrote it up.
The same severe thunderstorm that spawned the tornado in Bradley county dropped another here in Polk County. A number of houses were damaged, as well as numerous trees and powerlines downed. The storm then proceeded into Cherokee County, North Carolina.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, May 7 to 8, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Georgia, May 7, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Ohio, May 7, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Georgia, May 7 to 8, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Virginia, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in Tennessee, May 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in South Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in North Carolina, May 7, 1998
- Tornado in Alabama, May 7, 1998
More
Every storm in Tennessee in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Tennessee, 1998Warnings in Tennessee, May 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: 5644086.