Tennessee Tornadoes In 2010

Tennessee Tornadoes In 2010

Bobby Boyd
Meteorologist
National Weather Service
Nashville, Tennessee

There were 35 tornadoes across the volunteer state in 2010 with only 1 fatality. This was the least number of tornadoes in Tennessee since 2007. In 2007 only 10 tornadoes occurred with no fatalities.

 

Since 2000 there have been 333 tornadoes in Tennessee with 101 fatalities. The largest number of tornadoes in a calendar year since 2000 occurred in 2008 when 56 tornadoes touched down with 31 fatalities.

 

Table below shows the number of Tornadoes and Fatalities by year

                                                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                     

2010 35 1
2009 39 2
2008 56 31
2007 10 0
2006 32 34
2005 24 0
2004 18 0
2003 47 12
2002 31 17
2001 14 3
2000 27 1

The 34 fatalities in 2006 is the most since the Super Outbreak of 1974 when 47 Tennesseans lost their lives. The most fatalities in a calendar year occurred in 1952 when 22 tornadoes killed 70 Tennesseans...most of these in West Tennessee.




 

 



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