EF0 tornado in Hickman County, Tennessee

This EF-0 tornado touched down in forested areas west of the intersection of Swan Creek Road at Short Branch Road and moved northeast. The tornado destroyed a barn on Swan Creek Road and uprooted several trees as it continued east-northeast. Several hardwood and softwood trees were uprooted and two barns had sections of tin blown off on Totty Hollow Lane, but a mobile home at the same location received no damage. A few more trees were uprooted along Bond Road and Blue Buck Road before the tornado lifted north of Blue Buck Creek Road. The damage summary, beginning and ending location and times, and path length of this tornado were updated in July 2019 based on newly available high resolution satellite imagery in Google Earth.

A line of severe thunderstorms called a Quasi-linear Convective System (QLCS) developed across west Tennessee and moved eastward across Middle Tennessee during the late evening hours on Monday, November 5, 2018 into the early morning hours on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. This system spawned at least 10 tornadoes across Middle Tennessee that occurred in the darkness of night, including an EF-2 tornado that struck the Christiana area of Rutherford County, which unfortunately killed one woman and injured three others. Other tornadoes in this outbreak affected central Kentucky, northern and central Alabama, Mississippi and northern Louisiana. This tornado outbreak was the worst to affect Middle Tennessee since the December 23, 2015 tornado outbreak, which also occurred at night during the secondary severe weather season that occurs in the fall and early winter.