Murfreesboro Tornado on WKRN

[TheAdriane135]

If that tornado did not shift I wouldn't be typing this now and I remember the fear in my little brothers eyes and my older brother trying to help me breath cause I'm chrostphobic and I was stuck in a tiny closet with my two brothers my two dogs and my hamster who died a few months ago.:( and kids at my school that it was cool and one said I Slept threw it but I don't get how it was cool

[candyapplecarnage]

I will never forget that day. I remember looking out my window and seeing a tornado.I live right on Highway 96, so it went right by us.

[jdailey19811]

The day before my birthday. I still shudder when I think about it. A woman and her baby were killed, and the husband/father died days later from his injuries

[titansfan745]

@jdailey19811 That is a little far from the truth. The husband recovered from his injuries physically and was interviewed in a follow up news report several months after the tornado hit. He was a local contractor and I remember them talking about his business during the interview and while I don't know what hes been up to since then I do know he survived and is alive and well. Thank the lord

[21zachrwd]

this was the first tornado emergency to ever be issued by the national weather service in Nashville

[cascade559]

I WAS IN MY DORME ROOM AT TENNESSEE STATE. THIS IS A DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET.

THE STORM SIRENS WENT ON AND OFF EVERY OTHER 10 MINUTES.

WE GOT PEA SIZE HAIL(WHICH LASTED 10 MINUTES STRAIGHT). JUST TO PUT ITI IN MORE PERSPECTIVE: NASHVILLE TO MURFREESBORO IS ABOUT 32 MILES,

[makthnife]

idiot producers too...why wait till the damn thing is practically gone to move to a full shot?

[killingxthexlightsx]

MTSU doesn't let out for Good/Bad Friday. I spent an hour and a half in a stairwell cause of this monster. although I was lucky and was with people who had the attitude, "if we die, we're gonna die laughing!" luckily none of us did.

[ghostman3331]

this bitch announcer is trying to capture all the glory for reporting the tornado and intterups everyone

[LittleDawg7]

I live in Manchester bout 20 mins from the boro and we go there alot and luckly my mother and I were in Atlanta in the CNN center n we just stopped and stared and were saying oh my god please don't hit Manchester. But luckly it missed and Murfreesboro was built back up! Thank god for the warning systems!

[jessicaburciagishot]

my mom was freaking out because it was really close to where my brother works.... but he was out on a job so he wasnt any near the workshop

[waltonmolly]

@ScionofEntropy How am i being a hater?

[RockGroupie]

Hard to believe its almost been a year,, I was working over at The Avenue it was crazy ,,

[waltonmolly]

That was so scary it isn't funny this killed 2 people for anyone who sees this do NOT put on any videos of the tornado on You Tube! Some people's house's got destroyed

[Drago02129]

Don't be a hater.

[titansnascarfan11]

I remeber watching that I was off school that day because it was "Bad Friday". It freaked me out.

[gaseousheart]

@titansnascarfan11

do you mean good friday?

[titansnascarfan11]

yeah.

[GailandFrances]

@titansnascarfan11 I remember this year we were all freaked out cuz "bad friday" was coming!! Bur it was a beutiful day!

[oldchevy4x4]

@shane92589 I can't stand that woman. She talks over & interrupts every time she's on air with anyone else.

[dayvyd420365]

This thing went about 100 yards or so from my house where it killed the mother and child. I have seen a couple tornadoes, but never one that close. It was the scariest thing. I didnt know what to do as it came toward us. I felt helpless.

[bones4pres]

Thats over by the mall aint it?

[SQUIRRLYPRODUCTIONS2]

dude i was in Sumner County....i saw a funnel in my backyard!

[071047]

@SQUIRRLYPRODUCTIONS2 where in sumner were u?

[SQUIRRLYPRODUCTIONS2]

@0761047 37066

[071047]

@SQUIRRLYPRODUCTIONS2  Gallatin?

[SQUIRRLYPRODUCTIONS2]

@0761047 idk you figure it out

[GnashOlePreds]

I remember watching this on the t.v and than my power went...their was an EF-1 about a mile down the road pretty awesome lol!!!!

[Bororeed]

This is only the 2nd time a situation like this has happened live and they're getting visual confirmation via a camera. The previous was the downtown Nashville event in 1998. They all jumbled their words and were just trying to hammer the situation home. A Tornado Emergency had already been issued, the Nashville NWS Office's first ever, and nailed it. When wording like that is said, you have to do everything you can to make sure people understand wtf is happening.

[SlyBoogieProductions]

i was like riding the bus when i saw this and i kid almost feel out the window and almost sucked him up it was freaking scary

[hisleadinglady89]

dude that day there was four tornados in the going threw the middile on tennesse i live in lebanin wilson county we were in cookville going to fall creek falls we didnt know there was a tornado behind us when we got to cookville fuckin sirens goin off it was west of us my friend and husband said lets go to sparta to get away from this and soon as we got to sparta a tornado laned a mile away from us the car went to its right he hit the ebrake and we went to wallmart

[ryanjason11]

I saw this on the TDOT webcam on my computer.

[Bororeed]

Never mind the fact it isn't a TDOT camera, but a City of Murfreesboro camera.

[ryanjason11]

It was on the TDOT website. It wasn't the same camera as this one.

[lindsayandluke]

i was 2 houses down when it hit

[Pierorocks]

i was watching this ontv when it happend

[mfsamxoxo]

a friend of the family lost his wife and baby in this storm...i was in florida sitting by the pool can't believe i missed this :-(

[lindsayandluke]

i was 2 houses down from that and i saw his house get picked up

[minipurple52]

My grandmother seeked sheltered at a Micheal's in Murfreesboro while my brother and I came in contact with the tornado on I-24 after fixing radio towers at the Nashville Speedway.Almost crapped in my pants.

[utvolz4life]

The Murfreesboro tornado was very bad, but the worst tornado in Tennessee in the past few years was the one that hit Lafayette Tn on February 5th 2008.

[peacelovehappyness93]

i remember watching this. me and my mom were freaking out and were scared to death. we live in antioch but we have a bunch of friends in murfreesboro.

[therichcandies08]

i go to central middle and me and some friends were hanging out in the square and the tornado went right by us....

[Bororeed]

2 miles is hardly right by.

[iciegurl891]

I remember seeing this LIVE on tv and freaking out about it! That tornado was so huge!

[owenowen]

Yeah, if you look at the fucking picture of the camera instead of your shitty zoom crap, you might save some lives. "It might be on the ground, oops, there's a picture of it ON THE GROUND

[Bororeed]

They didn't realize that it was split screened until someone in the control room told Justin Bruce, the guy at the start of the video. I can guarantee you they did not expect to see it live via a Murfreesboro traffic camera.

[HAHAHAHAHAHAJARED]

yeah i was at home i go to blackman middle

[combat88k]

Holy mother of pearl!

[ryanjordansara]

oh my god that was my freind and i who were the storm spotters in the begging. I went to teh storm spotter class about two months ago and i never thought i would call in a tornado.. but i got to and im so glad i did it. other people should look into it.

[ghostman3331]

can you hear how the same old upstaging by the announcers are evident in this clip the woman looks like she wins the battle

[Bororeed]

Well, Lisa is the chief meteorologist at the station and ahs been there the longest. She also did this when Nashville was hit in 98. Also, they did not expect to see it visually themselves as it was happening, which lead to the clamoring, they were all trying to hammer the threat home.

[patthedrummer85]

@Bororeed

Yeah I've never heard them so "excited" (for lack of a better term)

[ghostman3331]

all i can say this tornado was a demon which has an evil purpose look what happened ive always said tornados are actually from the devil

[DarkAngel4565]

i used to live in murfreesboroand that tornado came about 8 houses away from my aunts house and i was freaking out

[kschubie]

The bad thing is they caught it passing over 24 headed to the house off Medical but no one reprted it to the Blackman area .. we kept hearing 5 miles west going up to Amaville(sp) and Smyrna!

[ButtMonkey83]

I am sad about the tornado hitting, but i am thankfully nothing touched down around me. I live in Cleveland, TN, and that line of storms hit us a couple of hours later. I was at work at Wally World (walmart), and we almost had to take cover. We had a warning out, and there was a lot of rotation in the sky, but nothing touched down.

[kschubie]

I live in the Blackman Area right by the Middle School and was very blessed not to have received damage. But what a great shoot this was. Amazing to be able to see it from there view and not looking at it in your back yard!

[bhkidd]

This is one of the best broadcast videos of a tornado that I have ever seen. The webcam plus the radar with the superimposed wind data will probably used for educational purposes for years. On a techincal note, the wind data shows the perfect red/green couplet that indicates a tornado. Excellent work.

[jessicaevil10]

omg we were traveling to GA and we just had got to murfreesboro and we stop on an exit for 5 minutes.. if we woulda kept going we would've got right in it but we saw the damage right after the interstate was like a parking lot

[stormyapril81]

I was watching this live, too. It skirted the parking lot where I work. Just as the tornado showed up on the traffic cam, the power went out. Scariest moment of my life.

[PeterPanDancer]

I was in a car on that road (Old Fort Parkway). I was chased for a while until I pulled into a business and went inside. It was a 100 yards away from my car. I watched it pass the business I was at. And then the second one touched down across from the business.

[xdegenerate18]

This tornado basically destroyed half my neighborhood..

[ghostman3331]

i was watching that when it happened

[megpiejo]

I didn't even kno there was a warning and was driving down medical center and got on I-24 and all the sudden it started hailing and cars were hiding under the overpass, i had no clue i was right in a tornado till a few minutes later when someone called me and said there was one that just crossed 24, I just thought it was really bad weather... now i will def. watch the news more often

[stormchickx78]

Tennessee is getting as bad as Tornado Alley.

[ericsummey95]

here in east tennessee, it really isn't that bad.

[stcyhood]

Me, my husband, and children were in the closet watching this very video live on channel 2 on his laptop... and we live in the blackman area in Royal Glenn subdivision. I am so thankful that our neighborhood was spared but am also thankful that we have channel 2 news to cover weather like this for us!!! They have probably saved more lives than they will ever, every know!!!

[footballfanatic31]

I am lucky to be alive... me and my dad were home and we saw it form right in front of our house...it went right over us then touched down behind us. the neighborhood behind me was damaged bad.

[Snakez19]

why freak out about something like this

what we should be doing is planning how to build stronger houses.

this is gonna happened a lot more. we messed up the weather soo... can't just bitch about this things.

[donrumsfeldd]

wow...

[cpc24]

The weather has always been like this; we just have a higher population density. Even then, only a few people are killed instead of hundreds, like in the 1800's.

[Snakez19]

Thats not my point. Weather is becoming tougher because we are still using rocks to power lots of things.

[chefalefadingdong]

i will never forget yesterday. i live off blackman road and i am so lucky to be alive

[hbkfan54321]

i was watching that i have never seen a tornado live like that

[ictennessee]

You have the prayers of McMinnville, TN

[deltasigmatheta4life]

We had some serious storms here in Georgia but nothing like this. I lived in Nashville during the 97 tornado outbreak and it was even scarier. GOD bless the souls of the young mother and baby who lost their lives.

[MarelProductions]

Same here!

[GamingPalooza]

jezz... that was scary. I live in Connecticut, but my heart goes out to you guys in Tenn after dealing with that.

[jx14aby]

Are Jackie Broyles and Dunlop okay?

[nicenevil2006]

May God bless the young mother and her baby daughter who lost their lives in this storm

[honeydooda]

Thank you for posting this. I live in Florida but my family is in Blackman & I was concerned.

[goldnsims]

I watched this in WKRN right as this happened. I was wide-eyed and shocked and was realizing just how many people I knew were in the Boro at the time. I'm saddend by the ordeal that so many people have gone through in the 'Boro. My prayers are with them.

[iciegurl891]

I saw this on tv and freaked out.

[Theoloc]

Wow. Great footage! You guys really caught it.

[StormChsnGrl]

Praying for Everyone affected

[T018]

They have confirmied 2 deaths lucky that the toll is so low. :(

[juststorin]

I watched this as it was happening, I know that area so well, I hope everyone there is OK.