In this video, we go over the harrowing tale of the April 16, 1998 Tornado Outbreak. From the infamous Nashville F3 to the forgotten Lawrenceburg F5, the outbreak would prove to be one of the most significant of the 1990s, and would change the state of Tennessee forever.
Sources:
NWS Nashville – https://www.weather.gov/ohx/19980416
John D. Gordon, Bobby Boyd, Mark A. Rose, and Jason B. Wright/NWS Nashville – https://www.weather.gov/ohx/forgottenf5
Video/Photos:
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https://www.weather.gov/ohx/19980416
https://www.weather.gov/ohx/20200303
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_March_2%E2%80%933,_2020#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_of_April_15%E2%80%9316,_1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJlU6UH1Qw
Music:
“Calypso” – “Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kANalBOlCOQ
“Sentimental” – “Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYMojud7eQw
Timeline:
0:00-2:24 Introduction
2:25-5:11 The Nightmare Begins
5:12-12:00 Nashville
12:01-15:50 The Forgotten F5
15:51-17:18 Recovery
17:19-18:11 History Repeats Itself
18:12-18:52 Reflection
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I was 10 yrs old at the old rec center in Columbia when it came over the news that Nashville was hit. I can still remember that day clearly.
I lived in Nashville, I call this hillbilly nightmare, Nashtrash.
It's pretty rare for them to hit metro areas….no?
I still remember this day. I was in 6th grade and my class was in a portable classroom. We ended up spending almost the entire day in a hallway in the main building, as the storms were training across the same areas over and over. One tornado was on a direct path towards my school, lifting just a few streets away, then it set back down between my school and my dad’s work, lifted again only blocks from his job and then touching down again on the other side.
I would scream if that happened to me
I think I remember this outbreak. Terrible. Stay safe y’all!
Same month I experienced my first f5 in Birmingham Alabama
i take daily walks at Cornelia Fort 😳
Who says anyone forgot about the 1998 tornado in Nashville. I lived in Nashville when it happened. I haven't forgotten it. I doubt anyone who lived there or near there forgot about it.
I was there, not far from the Hermitage. I remember it well
I remember this day as a tornado touched down in cedar hill/adams in robertson county wwhere i was in school at jo byrns it went right over the top of us
Andrew jackson!!??Jackson!!??! Stupid woke tornado
Americans got to be some of the most ignorant people i have ever seen. Who in the fuk gets in front of a damn glass door when there is high winds. Wow.
I always wondered what went through the minds the crew of that freight train in the footage filmed at the back of the news studio.
I was living in Nashville and in the bank of america building when it happened. This storm had destroyed the titans stadium while it was just being built
There was one in the eastern region of Tennessee a few years later
April 16th is my birthday and when I was just a few hours old April 16th 2001 there was a tornado outbreak in Kansas
I was born a few years removed from this event, but my dad saw the F5 cross 43 on his way home from work. 2 decades later I would visit Tennessee Tech a few weeks before the EF-4 tornado hit. Been a weather nerd all of my life but missed two of our state's most powerful tornadoes.
I was working in Waycross GA for a company just outside Nashville that day. It made a mess of our shop but no major damage other than two pole barns that were scheduled to be taken down so saved us a little money
I remember this because I lived through it. I was on spring break in elementary school.