Tornadoes in Tennessee, October 24, 2001

Name: Tornadoes in Tennessee, October 24, 2001
Start: 2001-10-24T19:00
End: 2001-10-24T20:28
Location: Tennessee

October 24, 2001 · NWS OHX · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

3 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $3.0 million
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 3

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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Nashville, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 24, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 1:30 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE TN
230 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

CURRENT...WATCH BOX ISSUED UP TO OUR BORDER THRU 00Z. SQUALL LINE
JUST AHEAD OF FRONT NOW MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
IL...SE MO...AND NORTH CENTRAL AR. GUST TO 58 KTS ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS LINE AT ST CHARLES MO.

IN OUR NECK OF WOODS...NOT MUCH SUNSHINE TODAY SO TEMPS ONLY IN
UPPER 70S. 18Z REQUESTED SPC SOUNDING SHOWS FOLLOWING PARAMETERS
WHICH WOULD LEND CREDENCE TO POSSIBLE SVR THIS EVE...

LI..... -4
SWEAT INDEX... 324
0-3 KM HELICITY.... 361
WBZ... 10,400

FORECAST...TIMING STILL LOOKS SAME AS PREVIOUS FCST FOR ARRIVAL OF
ACTIVE WX TONITE...00Z-06Z ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY. FRONT THRU BNA
02Z-03Z AND CSV 04Z-05Z. MAINLY DAMAGING WINDS W/ SQUALL LINE
ALONG/JUST AHEAD OF FRONT. ISOLATED TORNADOES NOT OUT OF QUESTION
BUT MAINLY TO OUR N. WILL GO W/ HIER POPS TONITE THAN MOS.

AFTER QUICK SHOT TONITE...RAPID CLEARING AND MUCH COOLER. MORE
FALL-LIKE CONDITIONS WILL ENSUE WITH CONSECUTIVE SHOTS OF COLDER
AIR.

AS FOR TEMPS...MAV LOOKS TOO HI FOR TOMORROWS MAX WHILE FWC LOOKS
WAY TOO HI FOR FRI MAX. LO LEVEL TEMP SCHEME LOOKS BEST OF ALL.

BNA UU 47/61/38/57 8000
CSV UU 44/57/33/54 7000

.BNA...NONE.

MAG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 24, 5:31 PM CST, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
631 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    CAMDEN                    TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/24/01   BENTON                         AMATEUR RADIO REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN SOUTH OF CAMDEN
                                          ON HIGHWAY 69.

0651 PM    NEW JOHNSONVILLE          TN   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/24/01   HUMPHREYS                      AMATEUR RADIO REPORT OF
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN JUST
                                          WEST OF NEW JOHNSONVILLE ON
                                          U.S. HIGHWAY 70.

JAO

Local storm report, Oct 24, 6:07 PM CST, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
631 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0630 PM    CAMDEN                    TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/24/01   BENTON                         AMATEUR RADIO REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN SOUTH OF CAMDEN
                                          ON HIGHWAY 69.

0651 PM    NEW JOHNSONVILLE          TN   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/24/01   HUMPHREYS                      AMATEUR RADIO REPORT OF
                                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN JUST
                                          WEST OF NEW JOHNSONVILLE ON
                                          U.S. HIGHWAY 70.

0655 PM    ERIN                      TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/24/01   HOUSTON                        SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 49 IN
                                          THE NORTHERN PART OF THE
                                          COUNTY.

JAO

Local storm report, Oct 24, 6:44 PM CST, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NASHVILLE,TN
744 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0600 PM    CUMBERLAND CITY           TN   60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/24/01   STEWART                        SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          A FEW TREES DOWN.

0755 PM    MT JULIET                 TN   70 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
10/24/01   WILSON                         STEEPLE BLOWN OFF A CHURCH
                                          LOCATED AT SAUNDERSVILLE
                                          RD. AND SAUNDERSVILLE FERRY
                                          RD. REPORT RELAYED BY
                                          NAWAS.

JAO

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Williamson

When: October 24, 7:00 PM CST
Where: Williamson County, Leipers Fork
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.2 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 35.900, -87.000

A few trees were down.

Tornado, Rutherford

When: October 24, 7:20 PM CST
Where: Rutherford County, La Vergne
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 6 yd
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 36.017, -86.583

Spotter reported a tornado, but it did no damage.

Tornado, Coffee

When: October 24, 8:28 PM CST
Where: Coffee County, 1 mi NE of Manchester
Rating: F2
Path length: 0.2 mi
Path width: 20 yd
Property damage: $3.0 million
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 35.500, -86.067

Roof and one wall to a factory was blown off at Manchester Industrial Park. There was structural damage to other buildings in the Joint Industrial Park. Also, several trees were down. One estimate for damage from the combination of straight line winds and the tornadoes, which extended from the commercial vehicle weigh station at I-24 to the Manchester Industrial Park, continuing to Old Airport Road and the Ashbury community, were in the several millions of dollars.

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 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Tennessee, 2001 Warnings in Tennessee, October 2001

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5269199, 5269200, 5269201.