EF1 tornado in Benton County, Tennessee

Tornado touchdown about 6 miles northeast of Camden at 1041 A.M. CDT. A newspaper reported that the damage began at the Prospect Church and Cemetery, damaging the trim of the church and uprooting trees in the cemetery. It traveled northeast and ended at the Tennessee River at about 1048 A.M. CDT. Damage width was 75 yards wide. Much of the damage was along and near Grapevine and Harmon Dock Roads. Many hundreds of large hardwoood trees and pine trees were snapped or uprooted along the 4 mile damage path. Twelve homes suffered roof and structural damage and several outbuildings, including two barns, were destroyed, two mobile homes were damaged, and at least two cars were damaged per NWS Storm Survey and newspaper reports. Based on this damage, maximum estimated winds at 100 mph which corresponds to and EF-1 Tornado.

Also...one trailor was destroyed on Harmon Creek Road. Numerous trees were reported down in northern portions of the county.

A strong upper level storm system moved across Middle Tennessee triggering early morning severe thunderstorms along with a line of severe thunderstorms that moved west to east across the entire mid state from the late morning hours through mid afternoon. This resulted in 10 tornadoes across the mid state, with one being an EF4 Tornado in Murfreesboro in Rutherford County.