Thunderstorm Wind — Lincoln, Tennessee

2025-05-25 · near Bledsoe, Lincoln, Tennessee

Event narrative

A power pole was knocked down at 307 Guant Street in Petersburg.

Wider weather episode

An upper level disturbance moving east into southern middle Tennessee (north of a slow moving frontal boundary edge north from central Alabama) interacted with an unstable atmosphere in the mid-afternoon hours to produce a line of strong to severe thunderstorms that pushed east into eastern Tennessee between 6 and 7 PM. This line of storms produced damaging winds across a good portion of southern middle Tennessee, particularly in northern portions of Lincoln, Moore and NW Franklin counties. In addition, a brief QLCS tornado occurred as well in Franklin county, TN.

This area was worked over by this initial convection enough to keep additional severe weather from occurring with a second line of thunderstorms that developed further south later that evening.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1276888. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.