Tennessee had much than 140 upwind warnings issued from 7 a.m. Wednesday done the overnight hours to astir 10 a.m. Thursday arsenic rain, upwind and hail pummeled the state.
There were 53 tornado warnings issued passim each of Tennessee, according to Iowa State University's Iowa Environmental Mesonet, which tracks upwind warnings. There were 20 flash flood warnings and 70 terrible thunderstorm warnings, according to the data.
Several outdoor tornado siren tract batteries were drained successful Nashville due to the fact that of extended usage arsenic powerfulness outages prevented them from recharging immediately, according to the Nashville Office of Emergency Management.
Tennessee terrible weather: Tornado ticker issued arsenic flooding concerns stay successful Nashville
"That's a uncommon lawsuit to person that galore storms similar that each (wanting) to enactment tornadoes down and the biggest situation is staying connected apical of them, and I deliberation we did a beauteous bully astatine that," said Jacob Bruss, a meteorologist astatine the Memphis office.
More rainfall and storms are expected into the play arsenic flooding volition go a main concern, according Nashville National Weather Service meteorologist Faith Borden. The upwind work is inactive "dealing with progressive flooding," and didn't expect the Nashville bureau to nonstop unit retired until Monday to measure tornado touchdowns. Borden said.
Some areas could inactive spot 6-8 much inches of rainfall done the extremity of the week, Borden said.
Tornado warnings issued successful Middle Tennessee
10:32 p.m., April 2: Stewart County.
11:06 p.m., April 2: Houston and Stewart counties.
12:27 a.m., April 3: Hickman, Humphreys, Perry counties.
12.56 a.m.:, April 3: Dickson, Hickman and Humphreys counties.
1:06 a.m., April 3: Hickman, Lewis, Perry and Wayne counties.
1:40 a.m., April 3: Hickman, Lewis and Perry counties.
2:02 a.m., April 3: Dickson, Hickman, Maury and Williamson counties.
2:36 a.m., April 3: Cheatham, Davidson, Williamson counties.
2:54 a.m., April 3: Sumner, Wilson, Williamson and Davidson counties.
3:21 a.m., April 3: Hickman, Lewis and Perry counties.
3:25 a.m., April 3: Macon, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale and Wilson counties.
3:33 a.m., April 3: Davidson, Sumner, Williamson and Wilson counties.
3:38 a.m., April 3: Davidson and Williamson counties.
3:42 a.m., April 3: Dickson, Hickman, Lewis, Maury and Williamson counties.
3:56 a.m., April 3: Davidson, Sumner and Wilson counties.
4:09 a.m., April 3: Davidson, Williamson, Hickman and Maury counties.
4:35 a.m., April 3: Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson and Wilson counties.
4:36 a.m., April 3: Hickman, Maury, Lewis and Williamson counties.
5:12 a.m., April 3: Williamson and Maury counties.
6:35 a.m., April 3: Lewis, Hickman, Maury and Williamson counties.
9:40 a.m., April 3: Trousdale, Wilson and Smith counties.
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