EF0 tornado in Lawrence County, Tennessee

This EF-0 tornado touched down just east of Highway 98, damaging several chicken barns. It traveled northeast and crossed Hood Hollow Road, causing minor damage to one home and destroyed multiple outbuildings. The tornado tracked further to the northeast, snapped a few trees and several large pine tree limbs before crossing Bassham Road and lifting. This tornado path was adjusted and extended slightly in May 2020 based on newly available high resolution Google Earth 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.