EF1 tornado in Putnam County, Tennessee

An EF-1 tornado touched down on Indian Creek Road near Stanton Road to the east of Buffalo Valley and continued east-northeast to near Baxter. Along Indian Creek Road, dozens of large trees were snapped and uprooted, a few homes had minor roof damage, and some small outbuildings were destroyed. Farther to the east near Baxter, a home suffered minor roof damage and barn was partially destroyed on Dyer Ridge Road. Debris from the barn was blown northward across Dyer Ridge Road into trees over 100 yards away. A large tree fell onto and destroyed a mobile home on Nashville Highway just east of Thompson Ridge Road, and numerous other trees were blown down in the area. The final damage was a collapsed large metal storage building on Highway 56 south of Higgenbottom Road north of Baxter.

The most damaging severe weather outbreak in Middle Tennessee since the December 23, 2015 Tornado Outbreak struck during the morning hours on March 1, 2017. A line of strong to severe thunderstorms with embedded circulations, known as a Quasi-Linear Convective System (or QLCS), moved rapidly across Middle Tennessee at 60-70 mph from west to east between 6 AM and 10 AM CST. Additional severe thunderstorms developed later in the morning and affected areas of southern Middle Tennessee from the late morning into the early afternoon hours. Widespread damaging winds were reported in nearly every county along and north of I-40 across Middle Tennessee, with winds estimated up to 90 mph in some areas. These intense downburst winds caused 3 injuries - two in Clarksville when a tree fell on a mobile home, and one in Lavergne when a tractor trailer flipped over. In addition to the damaging winds, 7 confirmed tornadoes also touched down from the Nashville metro area eastward to the Upper Cumberland, damaging hundreds of homes and businesses. Several reports of large hail were also received in parts of southern Middle Tennessee.