EF0 tornado in Wilson County, Tennessee

Using Google Earth high resolution satellite imagery along with OHX and TBNA radar data, an EF-0 tornado was determined to have touched down 6.6 miles west of Watertown north of Burnt House Road. This tornado then moved due east across Cainsville Road and rural areas north of Beech Log Road before dissipating into a severe downburst south of Taylor Road, around 3.3 miles west of Watertown. Dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted in all directions in a clearly convergent pattern along the path. One outbuilding was destroyed near a home on Cainsville Road with debris blown towards the north. With most of the path over inaccessible rural areas of Wilson County with no roads, this tornado could only have been determined using the high resolution satellite imagery.

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.