Tornados in Tennessee 2008

Compared with other States, Tennessee ranks number 23 for frequency of tornadoes; it averages 12 a year according to the Tennessee Disaster Center website.

Example: February 5, 2008 starting around 5:30 pm in Memphis, tornados swept through the southeastern section of the city. Also hit in the storm was the Hickory Ridge Mall.
In Jackson, Tn the Union University campus suffered a great deal of damage.
Macon County, Tn however was hardest hit.
Dozens of Tornados and storms slam Sumner and Macon County around 10pm, first sparking a massive fire in Macon. A fire at the Columbia Gulf gas transmission facility was raging about a half-mile east of the Macon-Sumner County line, off Highway 141.
(some of the orignal news reports listed it as Hartsville but its 5 miles from hartsville in Macon County.)
Police have shut down Highway 25/Hartsville Pike from Highway 231 through Castalian Springs in Sumner County. The Castalian Springs Post Office was leveled.
Homes in rural areas of Gallatin Tn were also severly damaged.
Thirty-One people were killed in Tennessee

Song: Dearl Hardy - Keep Holding On

Orignal posted by me on YouTube Feb 6, 2008 however that account was closed.

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[Penguisto]

A whole half of my family mostly lives down there. There was a petroleum plant that blew up. so the sky was red.

[pmb003]

really good posting

scary pics too and a long recovery

[lesliewright85]

I will never forget this day! My cousin 's girlfriend was killed in the tornado in Castalian Springs. Her son Kyson was also in the tornado but he did survive. R.I.P. Kerri Stowell.. Ur gone but never forgotten!! My prayers are also with all the other families that either lost loved ones or lost their homes that terrible day!

[joshkeisling]

having my house destroyed by one of the tornados that night in hartsville, It was nice to see all the people driving by slowly and trying to come down my driveway, not to help out but to try to take pictures

[SkaterBoiColton]

the tornado was on my road in castalian that day, i almost lost my life, 8 people died on my road alone

[Megamusicstudio112]

I live a minute away from the castalian springs town limits, I live outside the gallatin city limits but our address says gallatin.

[Megamusicstudio112]

I thought more people died in the tornado...wait no I remeber the total for the whole storm not just Tn but TN had the most deaths out of all the states hit,and I can't remember how many tornadoes there were that day, but I think it was near a hundred, and of coarse, Tn took the most of it.

[Megamusicstudio112]

I live in Gallatin, this tornado went around my house and was only about a mile from it! And the april 7 tornado was coming for my house, but it dicapated before reaching it.

[redneckcountry89]

i lived in hartsville and castains springs!!!!!

[ENDORPHMAN]

we mived to bell buckle frrom harstville 3 years ago

[Obito126]

My father used to live there.

[molusk1201]

I live in Hartsville