EF0 tornado in Fentress County, Tennessee

The same supercell thunderstorm that produced an earlier tornado in Jackson, Putnam, and Overton counties spawned an EF0 tornado that touched down in western Fentress County northwest of the intersection of Manson Road and Lost Creek Road. Aerial satellite imagery from Google Earth indicated the tornado then moved northeast through inaccessible forested areas and very hilly terrain before ending southwest of Gouldstown Road. Dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted along the intermittent damage path.

On Friday, March 2nd, as a warm and moist surface based air mass occurred across Middle Tennessee in advance of a strong surface cold front, and a deep upper level trough moved closer to the mid state with strong winds aloft, a significant severe weather outbreak occurred across the mid state starting in the morning hours and lasting well into the evening hours. Multiple reports of large hail occurred across the area, with sizes ranging from penny to baseball size. Several locations reported thunderstorm wind damage. Two tornadoes, an EF1 and EF2 respectively, occurred across the mid state with some funnel clouds being reported also.