Tornadoes Hit New Tazewell and Crossville (Knoxville, Morristown: power lines, mobile home, tornado)

[LauraC]

Well, so much for no tornado activity in East Tennessee. New Tazewell, according to newspaper stories is 40 miles northeast of Knoxville. In New Tazewell it destroyed three to four mobile homes, two fixed homes and blocked several roads with downed trees and power lines. When reported, they knew of 7 injuries, 3 requiring hospitalization. One man was trapped under his barn until he was rescued. This was at 8:10 Thursday night.

In Crossville, no one was injured but there was damage to trees and buildings. That tornado touched down a few times around 4PM over a 4.5 mile path.

[Shenandoah]

Oooooh I pray there were no injuries or deaths? Are they both on flatter land? Mountains and hills will break up and at the least lessen the strength and damage of a tornado. We had tornado warnings here, both on Monday evening and yesterday afternoon and evening. But they really are few and far between in this area, because of the hills and mountains. 2 real bad ones that I can recall in my lifetime, one in the 60's and one in the 80's. We're tucked back in between a couple of hills, so just about no danger where our home is located from tornado.

My prayers go out to any who were injured in the storms.

blessings, Shen

[alleycat]

You can watch a video here: http://www.wsmv.com/video/13208102/index.html

[hiknapster]

This is nothing new. We had tornadoes about a month back.

Shen, I agree with you about the mountains.

Last month, and last night, I watched those storms come right up to our area and disappear as soon as they hit the ridge. So far, it has happened every time. I wasn't as hysterical last night, but I had pain killers!

Don't you all wish I had those all the time?

Anyway, my prayers go out to everyone that was affected by the tornadoes. They are really frightening.

[hiknapster]

This has very good coverage of our area. They said that two tornadoes hit almost the same area three weeks ago.

http://www.wate.com/Global/category....&nav=menu7_2_4

[jabogitlu]

I heard on some news that there were tornadoes around Morristown around the same time. I've not seen it anywhere else, but I SWEAR I heard it on the news! It was quite lovely, as I was driving between Dandridge and Morristown right then, quite unaware of any impending doom.

[hiknapster]

They did say that the National Weather Service out of Morristown was going to the two counties to assess the damage. Maybe that is where you heard "Morristown?"

I'm glad you are okay!

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

I heard on some news that there were tornadoes around Morristown around the same time. I've not seen it anywhere else, but I SWEAR I heard it on the news! It was quite lovely, as I was driving between Dandridge and Morristown right then, quite unaware of any impending doom.

The newspaper story said there were several in the area but at the time of the report they thought they had only touched down in New Tazewell and Crossville. I'm not exactly sure what "touched down" means, technically speaking. Does it mean the twister has to touch dirt or is it anywhere from the ground to a certain number of feet off the ground to qualify as "touched down" --- I don't know. You know, if the top of a silo is ripped off but the cows on the ground aren't flying up in the air, is that considered "touched down" or not?

[jabogitlu]

You know, if the top of a silo is ripped off but the cows on the ground aren't flying up in the air, is that considered "touched down" or not?

LOL! I don't know, that's a good question... maybe our Okies could answer??

[jmarkey]

This is a good tornado site - lots of visuals and explanations of different types of tornados.

http://www.chaseday.com/tornadoes.htm

From what I understand, if the condensation funnel is close enough to rip the top off a silo, cows be flyin' due to wind circulation on the ground, even if the funnel hasn't technically "touched down".