EF0 tornado in Maury County, Tennessee

This EF-0 tornado touched down just east of the Natchez Trace Parkway in an open field in extreme eastern Hickman County, then moved northeast where trees were damaged and uprooted along two fence lines. Several 2000 pound hay bales were rolled and stacked along one fence line. The tornado continued northeast across the Duck River and into Maury County briefly before moving back into Hickman County, where it crossed Highway 50 and peeled tin off of the front porch of a house. In addition, a large magnolia tree was uprooted along with several hardwood and softwood trees at the residence. The tornado then crossed the Natchez Trace Parkway again, knocking down numerous trees in farm fields before lifting in a field next to Johnson Branch. The total path length was 2.1 miles.

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.