Nashville, Tennessee Tornado

[wiliam49100000000000]

on april 2, if anybody can recall, there was a tornado in springfield just north of nashville.the room that i was being born in actually was nearly demolished, my grandparents have told me that story countless times......then, this happened two weeks after i was born.....if you love crazy weather, then move to nashvill or an area around it.....we have seen every size of tornadoes imaginable, blizzards, ice storms, floods ( may 2010 ) ,earthquakes, almost 210 years ago, you name it, weve seen it.

[ATamandua]

Had a vendor who called on our business (located in Georgia at the time) who was in a car in downtown Nashville with his wife in this particular tornado. He said it actually "levitated" their car...lifted it in place a few inches or feet off the ground without moving it parallel in any direction, before setting it back down again. And this was "only" an F3, I believe.

[OMGoc9]

@ATamandua If memory serves me correctly, (which I think it does) It was an F5

[PelicanGuy]

@OMGoc9 It was only an F3.

[mrawsome24100]

i was sipping coffee and then i saw it scared the shit out of me

[BevBev009]

I was 7 when this happened. I went to school about 4 miles from where that tornado actually touched down. Luckily for me, I was out sick when this happened. I lived nowhere near downtown, so why I even went to that school in the first place is a mystery lol. 

[GabbyInReverse]

Damn Mother Nature you scary son of a bitch

[ragansmomrocks]

I was born on Dec.16.1998 O.o

[sixstringbeauty]

I was in the middle of this, on a greyhound bus coming into Nashville, as the storm was departing..there were HUGE baseball sized pieces of hail impacting the cars, and the glass was broken everywhere, and transformers blowing out left and right, and no power, and no phone lines. It was incredible. Too bad the camera can't really replicate the sound of the thing..it was SO loud !

[AJTwister97]

2:30, that has got to be the only time that the tornado was visible, and it is clearly multi-vortex. the tornado was not even a tornado, it was an invisible giant wedge that completely covered the entire downtown metro area of the city.

[nitroreserve]

this was not an F5 tornado, this was an F3 on the scale, the F5 occured in lawrence county just south of nashville

[agirlsman09]

@cblfdcadet It was an F-5 tornado.

[scarlelove444]

i was 1 mile from dieing-.-

[chrissy4570]

I remember this just as clear as daylight.. i was 4 and me and my aunt were in the hallway i remember looking at the ceiling and it looking like it had been picked up a little but i think it was just the lightening all the way around the ceiling.

[BeautyQueen208]

I'm having a servior storm right now but my Internet still working :)

[arzell]

I first moved to Nashville with my mother in '92 when I was seven. I've lived there off and on since then. Fortunately 4/16/98 was during my "off" period. I was living with my dad in Chicago and my mom was finishing up law school in Cleveland, OH during this time.

[theplanet1985]

Question. Has anyone tried shooting rockets at the tornados? Just spit ballin here.

[IceWuffeh]

Gah i remember that year... Such a scary ass night that was >.<

[JasonSideburn]

@TWEEDxSPEED pretty sure xbox wasnt out in 1998...but thats badass that you still played it

[Xboxlivemgear]

Nashville is a great city, I loved when I took trips to Opry Mills. Shame it's closed for now.

[down1by2the3river4]

@TWEEDxSPEED don't think the xbox had been released in 1998

[ZakarJerks]

I was 4 when this happend My mom rushed form work to pick me up form my daycare downtown

[ianat841]

13 years to the day, and Raleigh, NC takes a direct hit from a big twister. I'm hoping we get some footage as good as this from the Raleigh tornado.

[TheGamesReview1]

10 days after my b-day i was born april 6th 1998

[CresentSanctuary]

home sweet home 

[xeronicus]

I remember that beast, it started in viola and made its way up from there, satellite system iirc....I used to live in viola.....That thing started in my front yard, missed our house by 400 ft, a neighbor said it funneled down above the house, looked like it was going to hit it smack in the middle....then he said it went a couple hundred feet over and touched down beside the house....there was a CROP CIRCLE next to our house.

We were praying at about the time it moved away from our house..

[jmeier37]

Great video, had this tornado gained more rotation it could have been much worse.

[qwertyuiopasdfgh22]

heyyyyyyyyy my sister was alive then shes 18 now

[FirstLiasis]

I was in town when the both came over (there were actually 2 tornadoes in Nashville that day)...it was freaky, to say the least.. I was actually sucked out the door of my home by a small tornado a few years ago, it tore off 1/3 of the roof, which we never found any debris of. I held onto the doorknob so hard it warped the door in the frame & wouldn't shut after that.

[actorboy381]

I was there for that one...winds ripped 200 year old magnolias out of the ground in Centennial Park. The tornado touched down and stayed on the ground for 15-20 miles...unbelievable...and no one was killed...miracle.

[Ciccothe]

EF5 tornado or EF4

[97beachboy]

I still can't get over how loud it was!

[KaizokuShojo]

I remember this... Very scary day for many. Channel 5 went out for quite a while...if I recall, they had to use one of their trucks to broadcast from for a bit...? And they talked for days about how it disproved that strong tornadoes couldn't hit Nashville...

[97beachboy]

My dad was working in the US Bank tower that Thursday. He said the building was swaying from side to side. I was only a year old.

[Unit430]

Most of the deaths from tornadoes are probably people who insist on watching them, or people who feel whatever they are doing is so much more important than taking cover.

[uglydude0]

i remember that tornado. aint shit compared to ivan and its aftermath though. i was there for both

[melee409]

Tennesse seems to get the most fucked up tornadoes.

[ColtsPlaya24]

this was on my cousins bday and i was literally in it my grandpa said the he saw a tractor trailer fly. But my whole family was in it. It swallowed up the whole city.

[TheMerriamLookout]

@ColtsPlaya24 don't give a fuck who's birthday it was. Really? Stop posting...

[kakadan13]

@TheMerriamLookout dude just shut no body cares about you,

[MrAlexsyk]

аа че это было????(((

[RYOT]

I remember this. It hit about fifteen miles from where I live. Thankfully none of my family was in town at the time.

[beautifuldisaster922]

i remember when this happend but i dont remember the tornado being that big!

[ghostman3331]

ok everone knows just type in the word nashville for every sort of extreme weather

[missmissy22556]

Was it F5 or F4?

[summer817]

@missmissy22556 it was an F-3.

[bloodhounder]

My oldest daughter and I were in the gym at 51st and Charlotte at St. Ann's. I saw a tree go past the window horizontally, and the concrete roof of the gym actually rippled. It was like the world's largest vacuum was sucking on the whole building. I thought we were going to die. When we left, it took us five hours to get home because every way was blocked. Not a good day. I hate tornadoes.

[10mbluephats]

Hmm, I have a VCR Tape of this tornado, hitting Nashville.. Downtown I think.. Can't quiet remember.

[killerfurball]

I've been looking for the New 5 sky cam footage of this for so long. I remember my father coming and picking me up from Sylvan Park that day because of the storm. We didn't have a car so we had to walk home. No more then like 10 mins after we got back just the most ungodly wind came right past our house twice. Thankfully we were in that area just in between them before the converged around Centennial Park.

[KoopaThaKing]

I remember this, my family and I watched this on the news because we have a lot of family in that area. Then when the Tornado hit everyone was focused on the T.V. and no one was talking. Then I remember not long after that we went down there to check on family and after we made sure everything was okay and we were coming home, from the highway I could see crooked and deserted buildings. It was rainy the whole time we were down there and after we left the state of Tenn. I seen 2 funnel clouds.

[12GaugeBubba]

That same day we got hit with a F5 tornado in Culleoka TN (Maury County) It distroyed our 2 cars. Thank God We are Still Alive. A Row of Trees Saved Our House from being Leveled.

[adamjeffreysmith]

@12GaugeBubba Really gets me that we do have so many tornadoes in TN that go unnoticed because of the ones hitting the more populated areas. But our state is heavily populated which is probably why we lead the nation in deaths due to tornadoes

[growingup15]

My God that looks scary. im glad we havent gotten one here yet in Downtown Columbia,SC. we got close on March 15th. 4 tornadoes passed by columbia more no more then 5-10 miles.

[MrThedoc87]

i remember this

[deltasigmatheta4life]

I was living in Nashville when this happened. Was not too far from the downtown area. The entire day began with tornado watches and warnings. It was pretty scary. From our office we could see the tornado going through downtown. The night before they did a segment on the news about how tornados did not touch down in downtown areas!!! WOW!!

[adamjeffreysmith]

@deltasigmatheta4life The town officials were actually meeting about installing tornado sirens when this tornado hit. Needless to say they were installed all over the state. In the next decade ironically, more than 100 ppl died in TN because of tornadoes. More than any other state or place on earth

[deltasigmatheta4life]

I was living in Nashville when this happened. Was not too far from the downtown area. The entire day began with tornado watches and warnings. It was pretty scary. From our office we could see the tornado going through downtown. The night before they did a segment on the news about how tornados did not touch down in downtown areas!!! WOW!!

[TBOLT1000]

at 1:09, if you listen very carefully, you can hear a t-bolt 1000t winding-down.

[sissythehedgehog]

W-wow!

[kaijuking588]

omg i was about 3 i had no idea wat was going on

[sataraid]

I was working on 2nd ave when this came through. I was walking towards Broadway on 2nd Ave. I saw the funnel cloud moving down Broadway. I had just jogged past a door (thinking i need to take cover) I stopped and turned to go in that door when I saw a second funnel cloud on Church St.

You can see both funnel clouds if you stop this video at 1:45.

[2agray]

The clip I remember the most was of Northern tourists shopping downtown that had never seen a tornado. I only saw the complete clip once. They were standing on the sidewalk filming and chuckling. The owner of a shop dragged them inside and they were bitching at him for being rude. They ran back out and he pulled them in again and the windows blew in. They were screaming and you could hear the owner say, "Damn yankee tourists!"

[69kapp11]

It hit just north of me as i was southbound and the debris cut off the interstate. It was the first time I found myself driving the only car on the Interstate!

[firefreak2007]

My dad started working at Newschannel 5 there in october...you can see the entrance of the station from the inside there for a sec

[afabandjon]

mile wide ?? f5

[1800PLZWAKEUP]

Oh my GOD I remember when this happened. It was scary as Hell too. The whole damn city was in total blackout. I was in S. Nashville in the Edgehill area. Our part of town wasn't hit too hard but E. Nashville got it's ass torn apart. Ironically none of the public housing developments suffered any damages. HA!

[atom2009]

I remember the day of this tornado going to work and I noticed that small clods in the area were tumbling as if in a dryer. The atmosphere must have been unstable all day. Luckly I was across the river from shelby park and watched it go by and jump the cumberland river at the gaylord office building.

[mchance003]

I live in Nashville and was at home the day the tornado hit. i drove down the street a couple of days after the tornado and a house was totally demolished. I remember hiding in the bathtub scared to death. Was a spooky day here in Nashville.

[PARADOXo0o]

it's was just a little windy thats all,church street was knocked around a little no big deal.

hell the cable didnt even go out,it mostly whopped the west and east side of nashville ass.

[KLipoNtHeJo65]

what a gnarly day

it was crazy

[Muziclvr07]

Wow!  The sound of that thing was awful! I'm glad everyone was alright. Scary!!

[evanescencerocks123]

actually one man died he got hit by a tree branch in Centennial Park. Wes End Ave. that was a scary day I was 4 or 5 but i remember this day all to well ... i have a good memory ^^

[PauloCSalles1]

There is a dino god called TEMPEST!!!! HE COMMANDS TORNADOS!

[flattsfan09]

i was 7 years old when this happened.

[Theshopking6x]

i line in tn but in 1998 i didn't live there

[hapoop30]

it was massive wow

[TN12thwoman]

I remember when this happened. I think a few years before this there were 60 tornados or rotations spotted in middle Tennessee in one day.

[Brawl483]

i live in georgia. i totally remember watchin this

[alyssacuddlycub]

I was in that a year and 2 months old when that happenned with my aunt and uncle and their closet! Lol

[youseemreallybored]

dude i was like 1 and 11 months old!

it was crazy as hell!

[jneil2007]

its so funny americans think the weathers so fucked up here and global warming is killin us when they forget to realize there are many different climates in the us. tropical,arctic,desert,mediter­ranean in the west. ur gonna get crazy weather with that combo. i was in nashville during this too. this tornado is why the titans stadium isnt a bowl.

[Shad0wMarin3]

why does the guy with the camera always have to be the brave one lol

[DeanC993]

Thanks god i did not move here then !!!

[xGIATIx]

we dont get these often but when we do this is about it lol

[DeanC993]

hey guys remember in Febuary we had tornadoes too

[pipple6]

i was stuck outside skateboarding when this happened with a few friends.

we had to go in shoneys n chill

[vmpslr2]

at 2:08 that looks like a man falling from the sky

[alpendampfer1]

Really horrible ! Be glad if you not in the near of this kind of storms, tornado, hurrican or whatever ! Greetings from Switzerland !

[osprey305]

hows life in switzerland?

[pureimagination4747]

That was one of the scariest days ever. I remember watching most of those videos back then, and it's so scary to revisit them. However we must learn from the past to understand what is possible in the future.

[XxxBritishxxX]

if the tornado was not mentioned and was posted on the news.. it would look like the end of the world

[crazystupidperson777]

1st reaction run& dont look back!!!

[RandomKidsRule]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[bnoll01]

I was 16 when this happened! I was about 20 miles away and man we were on alert in Smyrna! Great video.

[sorasmusic]

I was in Highschool when this happens

[breezer1209]

looks like doomsday

[FriedRock]

sweet footage.. thanks for posting

[prettyauthentic08]

omg i remember this i was in elementary school @ cumberland this was the most scariest childhood memory :(

[LoneSniperSG]

Scary shit there.

[ArsonistMonkey]

It was terrible, downtown was inaccessible for about a week or 2 if I remember correctly, we were also in the middle of having the new titans stadium built, and it was being tossed arouned like popsicle sticks.

[ArsonistMonkey]

I remember this, I was eight.

I was in school, and I remember my parents picking me up early, and on our way home, we had to pull over because we could barely see, and I remember the power lines falling on the road and fire and sparks, it was the most frightening experience of my childhood.

[gloryrevealed777]

Thanks for posting this. I was in labor and having my baby at Centennial Hospital. She and I almost died. I stayed in surgery 5 hrs. after her delivery. Weve been on the news and they have covered our story for the past couple of yrs.. but noone had the real deal like this video. She is now 11, well soon to be.

[4zygomont2]

What an incredible editing job of these clips! When I went to Nashville a couple of years ago for a conference, I knew that this had happened, so I had to get a look at this video. I had stayed in the Sheraton Downtown, which, to my amazement, appears to be the first building to enter the picture at the lower right at 0:33 (it has a distinctive roof); a minute later, the hotel is completely obscured by the black clouds. I'm sure glad I wasn't staying there at the time!

[mikaylafan1]

0MG!! This happend April 16??

dats my b-day..!!

[angeleyes0589]

i hope we never have to go through that again!

[kcaman400]

a huge tree hit my house and i had to got to hspital and the turk i was in front of it

[Siren1000T1]

Today Nashville has one of the worse tornado sirens ever! They had a tornado in 2008 and after they installed those new shitty sirens, no one could hear them because those sirens are WAY too high pitch to make the sound carry out. A lot of people died because of that. There old sirens were just fine until the newer ones took over.

[KruegerLot]

dude,I was like,four,when this was happening,my dad was at work,and,I was spooked,I really,never want to go through Hell,ever again.

[atom2009]

I was across the river from shelby park about a mile where it jumped the river At the gaylord building. Our dispatcher got a call from someone downtown and I ran outside and watched it go by. Strange that the clouds right above us were a green color. But if anybody remembers that day in the morning before it happened little clouds here and there were moving weird like they were in a dryer. You know like up and down not just moving in a side direction very unstable atmosphere the whole day.

[justkiddin08]

My sister went thru that she said it was crazy how fast it came.

[angeleyes0589]

i was 8 when this tornado came through. i was really scared because we were still in school...

[jprescott86]

I went to east when it happened

[Lynxii3392]

i remember this night so horribly.... i was about 1hour away in Columbia TN that night a tornado hit the movie theatre when i was in it... i was 5 at the time :S

[autigerssuck]

wow this is great footage right here. captured the sound, and even though it was rather dark at the beginning you could still see the rotation.

[THEMIKON8ER]

Tornados hitting Nashville isnt considered to something that happens very often, But it can happen, i guess.

[nubbie1944]

@THEMIKON8ER Are you shitting me, it happens at least once a year.

[gamerbigb]

i was nine when that happin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[boduke70]

I was there to visit the Spring Hill Saturn plant a week after this. Stayed at the Crowne Point Plaza, and it was weird to see a modern downtown so scarred by the damage. Big tornado buff, wish I'd have been there to see it.

[Vantage989]

My friends roof was in my front yard that day. :|

[Vantage989]

I remember that day. My friends roof was on the front porch of my house. It was dark as hell out there man. some scary shiet.

[JBMAC92082]

i was in that tornado in 98 when i was 13 and it was the scariest thing that ever happened to me.me and my uncle was on our way to my aunts house in east nashville and the tornado was behind us and i had to run into lockland middle school to get shelter.i will never forget that day

[djscrizzle]

As was I. I was 13, too. Just got my cast off a couple weeks prior... I didnt wanna get anythign broken again:P I lived in Smyrna and seen a couple funnel clouds over my neighborhood. I had a toy bike siren, which i modded with a horn speaker n stuck out the window for a tornado siren since they didnt have any installed then.

[jessicaburciagishot]

i was 3 and i live in LaVergne. my parents were scared to death

[taylorlanerocks]

I used to live in Smyrna too.

Although I was 3 miles away from it. at my aunts house. pretty scary for a 5 year old

[metalpriest420]

yikes

[420to840]

damn! thats a nasty lookin thing

[FrogTesticle]

Wow, the clouds look creepy.

[itb222]

5 stars but it would of been funny if you also showed the one where that black lady freaks out and looked like she was about to have a heart attack.

[Espatha]

I honestly don't know if it was a Mulitple Vortex Tornado or a Wedge Tornado.

[user1154101]

wicked storm - so bad that it went through the downtown too.

[fantasticaj]

The first part was freaky; the sound. I felt like I was actually there.

[WillieDines1]

Hi A/C, how are you? :)

I hope that everything's going great there for you :)

There is no sign of a condensation funnel with this tornado at all, but it would be that the funnel itself was just too rain wrapped to be visible :)

I agree with the possibility that this tornado may have been multiple vortex because of the fact that there were random power flashes in various areas within the tornado's circulation zone :)

Thank you for uploading this, top rating yet again :)

[momotous]

I lost track of a friend because of that tornado. communications were down and damage forced her to move. i was in a move at the time so she did not know where I was at and I have not heard from her since.

[Chubzdoomer]

I only live 3-4 hours or so from Nashville (I'm in Southwestern Virginia), and I often travel to Kingsport/Johnson City/Knoxville Tennessee.  This is some frightening stuff!

[phamilto]

holy crap that thing is either massive, or it has alot of Multiple Vortices.

[Jimmy57452]

That was one sweet compilation. The shouting at 2:12-2:17 was hilarious. "Get back here! GET BACK HERE!!!"

I don't remember, how big was this tornado? An F4?

[Bluetailvappy]

According to the writeup on the tornado, it was an F3.