EF0 tornado in Davidson County, Tennessee

A brief EF0 tornado touched down In the Stones River Bend Park and moved southeast, snapping several trees along the river. Moving through the Standford Estates subdivsion, the tornado blew down numerous large trees in a convergent pattern on Edgemont Drive, Myrick Drive, Stanford Drive, Belding Drive, and Jenry Drive, with some trees falling onto and severely damaging homes. Many of these same homes were also damaged in a severe microburst on April 18, 2017. The tornado continued southeast and blew down many more trees on Wellington Square, Lebanon Pike, and along the Stones River Greenway before lifting.

The most widespread damaging wind event to affect Middle Tennessee in at least 15 years struck the area during the evening hours on Friday, June 21, 2019. A long line of severe thunderstorms known as a MCS (mesoscale convective system) formed across southeast Missouri during the day, then moved southeast across Middle Tennessee between 6-10pm. With ample instability and unusually strong wind shear for late June in place, these storms produced widespread damaging winds in every Middle Tennessee county. Thousands of trees were blown down across the region, including some that had been standing since the Civil War. Damage to power lines and poles resulted in an estimated 100,000+ power outages, with some people without electricity for up to 1 week. In addition to the damaging winds, large hail up to quarter size was reported, and several mesocyclones within the line of storms spawned 4 tornadoes and several funnel clouds. Due to the long path and severity of the wind damage with this MCS, the Storm Prediction Center classified this event as a derecho.