Tornadoes · United States · Tennessee

2025 tornadoes in Tennessee

48 tornadoes touched down in Tennessee in 2025, 149 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 7 people and injured 24.

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The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Tennessee in 2025

February 6 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 6	6:10 PM CST	EF2	Jackson	4.2	650			$1.0 million
February 6	6:20 PM CST	EF1	Putnam	7.6	400		1	$1.0 million
February 6	6:41 PM CST	EF1	Overton	5.3	500		1	$1.0 million
February 6	6:53 PM CST	EF2	Fentress	21.9	200	2	3	$1.5 million
February 6	9:26 PM EST	EF1	Grainger	3.5	700			$100,000

February 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 15	7:01 PM CST	EF2	Gibson	4.1	300			$500,000

March 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 15	7:56 AM CDT	EF0	Hardeman	2.7	50			$10,000
March 15	3:20 PM CDT	EF1	Bedford	4.5	300			$1.0 million

March 30 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 30	10:07 PM CDT	EF1	Humphreys	2.0	150	$100,000
March 30	10:25 PM CDT	EF0	Humphreys	2.5	300	$100,000
March 30	11:07 PM CDT	EF0	Hickman	2.2	150	$50,000
March 30	11:12 PM CDT	EF0	Perry	0.3	75	$50,000
March 30	12:00 AM CDT	EF2	Maury	5.6	350	$500,000
March 30	12:14 AM CDT	EF1	Maury	4.1	300	$50,000

April 2 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 2	4:21 PM CDT	EF0	Madison	1.9	150			$50,000
April 2	8:15 PM CDT	EF1	Dyer	4.7	100			$1.9 million
April 2	8:35 PM CDT	EF1	Obion	9.3	350			$325,000
April 2	9:00 PM CDT	EF2	Weakley	6.4	350			$250,000
April 2	9:17 PM CDT	EF1	Weakley to KY	17.1	200			$980,000
April 2	12:34 AM CDT	EF3	McNairy	29.1	650	5	14	$11 million

April 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 3	9:36 AM CDT	EF1	Wilson	11.5	300			$250,000
April 3	5:57 PM CDT	EF0	Lawrence	0.1	25

April 5 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 5	3:06 AM CDT	EF0	Lauderdale	0.9	50	$5,000
April 5	3:11 AM CDT	EF0	Lauderdale	6.4	100	$15,000
April 5	3:22 AM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	3.0	100	$10,000
April 5	3:35 AM CDT	EF0	Lauderdale	2.3	50	$10,000
April 5	3:35 AM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale	5.3	150	$150,000
April 5	3:49 AM CDT	EF1	Crockett	2.6	75	$10,000
April 5	5:16 AM CDT	EF0	Henry	2.0	100	$15,000
April 5	5:37 AM CDT	EF1	Benton	2.6	350	$5,000
April 5	3:49 PM CDT	EF1	Humphreys	2.6	150	$250,000
April 5	4:15 PM CDT	EF0	Dickson	0.3	50	$250,000
April 5	12:38 AM CDT	EF1	Franklin	8.7	350
April 5	12:51 AM CDT	EF1	Grundy	6.4	400	$500,000

May 20 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 20	1:20 PM CDT	EF0	Marshall	1.4	300	$250,000
May 20	2:58 PM EDT	EF1	Roane	0.5	100	$50,000
May 20	3:15 PM CDT	EF0	Madison	1.3	75	$15,000
May 20	3:59 PM CDT	EF0	Lewis	2.7	50
May 20	5:08 PM CDT	EF0	Montgomery	9.3	100	$250,000
May 20	5:25 PM CDT	EF0	Montgomery	3.2	200	$250,000
May 20	5:47 PM CDT	EF0	Coffee	1.1	150	$250,000
May 20	7:29 PM CDT	EF1	Cumberland	4.8	150	$250,000

May 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	4:01 PM CDT	EF1	Franklin	6.8	100

May 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 30	8:36 AM EDT	EF0	Loudon	2.5	200		5	$150,000

June 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 6	8:52 PM CDT	EF0	Maury	2.6	175			$250,000

June 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	8:37 PM CDT	EF0	Hickman	6.9	175			$250,000
June 18	8:37 PM CDT	EF0	Macon	4.3	300			$250,000

August 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 20	3:47 PM CDT	EF0	Franklin	0.3	100

Crossed into Tennessee

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Tennessee. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 2	12:07 AM CDT	EF2	Benton, MS to TN	12.5	450		3	$725,000
April 3	1:13 AM CDT	EF3	Marshall, MS to TN	39.5	1,200	2	3	$4.8 million
April 3	4:38 PM CDT	EF1	Alcorn, MS to AL, TN	28.0	425			$930,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Tennessee since 1950 Warnings in force in Tennessee The live radar over Tennessee

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.