EF2 tornado in Obion County, Tennessee

A tornado touched down west of Union City and tracked northeast damaging 16 structures. Many structures had roofs removed and several barns destroyed. A minor injury was to an occupant of one of the homes who was sent to the hospital and released. The other occupant of the house was in the garage and saw the tornado coming. The suction was so strong he could not enter the house until part of the roof was blown off. There was major damage to large machine sheds. The tornado moved a 700 pound weight about 15 feet and threw a 40 pound jack about 50 yards. A steel trailer was bent.

A stalled frontal boundary was located from North Central Arkansas to the Tennessee and Kentucky border during the early morning hours of April 28, 2014. The airmass south of the boundary was very unstable. A sutble upper level disturbance triggered thunderstorm developoment and these thunderstorms eventually developed into a mesoscale convective system that tracked across much of West Tennessee with a few reports of large hail, flash flooding and a weak tornado. Later that same day a cold front moved in from the west triggering a few thunderstorms. One thunderstorm spawned a tornado that tracked from Northern West Tennessee into Southwest Kentucky.