EF1 tornado in Dekalb County, Tennessee

This EF-1 tornado began southeast of Auburntown in northern Cannon County on Hurricane Creek Road. The tornado then traveled east-northeast up and down several different large hills and hollows causing sporadic damage to trees. The worst damage occurred on Dutton Hollow Road, where a carport and well-built taxidermy barn were completely destroyed, and numerous trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado then crossed into DeKalb County and caused additional tree damage on Highway 53. A house on Clear Fork Road sustained damage to the roof and wood siding, and the steeple on the nearby Cave Springs Missionary Baptist Church was damaged. After the tornado traveled through more hollows and hills causing additional tree damage, it finally lifted near Vandergriff Hollow Road. The total path length of the tornado across Cannon and De Kalb Counties was 8.82 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.