Nashville, Tennessee Tornado

April 16, 1998

A series of clips featuring tense moments during the infamous Nashville twister. Includes the "rotation over the building" shot.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Nashville
• tornado
• 1998
• Tennessee
• environment
• storms
• twisters

[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.

[PelicanGuy]

@OMGoc9 It was only an F3.

[OMGoc9]

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

[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.

[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.