EF0 tornado in Giles County, Tennessee

This EF-0 tornado touched down near Old Poplar School Road where it blew the sheet metal roofing off a small church. NASA satellite imagery showed the tornado continued northeast across Poplar Hill Road, Kelley Road, and Beasley Branch Road where it blew down numerous trees. Along Witt Road, some shingles were lost on a house, the roof of a shed was blown off and a few trees were uprooted or had large branches snapped off. The tornado continued east-northeast and paralleled the Elk River uprooting additional trees and snapping large branches. The tornado blew a semi truck off of I-65 before lifting just east of I-65 near Dixon Town Road.

One of the worst tornado outbreaks ever recorded in the United States struck the Midwest, Ohio Valley, and Tennessee Valley from the evening hours on December 10 into the morning hours on December 11, 2021. Across Middle Tennessee, a total of 16 tornadoes were determined to have touched down, making this the 5th largest tornado outbreak on record in Middle Tennessee. These tornadoes injured 8 people across Middle Tennessee and caused millions of dollars in property and tree damage in many counties. These tornadoes, combined with the 5 tornadoes that occurred just a few days earlier across Middle Tennessee on December 6, 2021, set a new record for the number of tornadoes during the month of December. In addition, many counties that had tornadoes in December 2021 had never recorded a tornado in the month of December before, including Stewart, Humphreys, Cheatham, Wilson, Trousdale, Overton, Pickett, Coffee, and Grundy Counties.