EF0 tornado in Wayne County, Tennessee

This is a continuation of a tornado that started in Lauderdale County, Alabama. The tornado crossed into Tennessee and caused EF0 damage, blowing down dozens of trees and causing minor roof damage to a home on May Branch Loop. As the tornado moved northeast, it uprooted many trees and ended up destroying an outbuilding and causing minor roof damage to a home on Middle Cypress Creek Road. Finally, it crossed George Olive Road, did some minor shingle damage to a home and rolled several large bales of hay through a field before lifting. The total path length of the tornado in Alabama and Tennessee was 6.48 miles. The path length of this tornado was extended slightly and the max wind speed increased to 85 mph in May 2020 based on newly available high resolution satellite imagery.

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.