Fentress, Cumberland Report Damage Following Sunday Storms, No Injuries Reported
Widespread damage to property in Fentress and Cumberland Counties following Sunday evening’s storms. Both Fentress County and Cumberland County emergency personnel said they received videos from folks in the community showing tornadoes touching down. Fentress Emergency Planning Commission Chair Gary Peters said the tornado started in the Wilder community and appeared to jump back and […]
McBroom Chapel Church Of Christ To Have First Service In New Building After Tornado
McBroom Chapel Church of Christ will have its first service this Sunday since it was damaged by the 2020 tornado. McBroom Family Historian Larry McBroom said when he first heard that the church was made structurally unsound by the storm, he was in disbelief. He said when they tore it down in April, there was […]
Cookeville Dedicates New Dogwood Park Sculpture Remember The 2020 Tornado
An emotional ceremony Friday afternoon as the community dedicated a new Dogwood Park sculpture remembering the 2020 Tornado. “And it will forever serve as a reminder of how Cookeville and Putnam County came together in a time of tragedy to support, and comfort, and to assist one another,” Wheaton said. “The beautiful sculpture will remember […]
Cookeville To Consider Providing Funding For Dogwood Park Sculpture
Cookeville City Council will consider providing additional funding to complete a sculpture honoring victims of the 2020 Tornado. Leisure Services Director Rick Woods said the monument was a project by the Leadership Putnam Class of 2021. “The plan is for it to go in Dogwood Park in an area that will be very visible and […]
Putnam Hosts Dedication Of Hope Park For Tornado Survivors
Putnam County dedicated the completion of Hope Park Sunday to the neighborhood and donors that made the project possible. Mayor Randy Porter said the park brings peace to a community that experienced great loss from the March tornado two years ago. “In talking with you with the survivors in the surrounding neighborhoods, the one thing […]
Putnam And Cookeville Community Donate Some $240K To December Tornado Victims
Putnam County and Cookeville residents and businesses donated some $240,000 to help families in west Tennessee and southern Kentucky impacted by the December tornadoes. Mayors Ricky Shelton and Randy Porter made the announcement Thursday on the second anniversary of the Cookeville tornado. The mayors held a Zoom meeting with the mayors of Dresden and Kenton, […]
NWS: F-1 Tornado Caused Damage In Hermitage Springs
National Weather Service Meteorologists found a F-1 tornado touched down in Clay County Saturday morning. During a Monday assessment, meteorologists found the tornado stayed on the ground nearly six miles with a width of 75 yards. The storm uprooted trees in Hermitage Springs just south of Highway 52. It then crossed the highway destroying four […]
Clay County Hardest Hit Early Saturday By Storms
The Hermitage Springs community of Clay County suffered tree damage from what the National Weather Service called a likely tornado early Saturday morning. The Weather Service reports a large tornado debris signature on radar just after 4am Saturday morning. The signature shows building materials and trees on radar. “At this time, we ask that people, […]
Cumberland County Confirms EF-1 Tornado, First Ever In October
National Weather Service and Cumberland County EMA damage assessments show an EF-1 tornado touched down Wednesday night, just north of Crossville. It reportedly touched down just before 6:00 PM with max winds of 90 miles per hour. The path length was roughly 1 mile and path width was 50 yards. This would be the first […]
Putnam EMA Director Tyler Smith Honored For Tornado Leadership
Putnam County EMA Director Tyler Smith has received the state’s highest honor for leadership to the response of the 2020 March tornado. EMA of Tennessee and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency presented Smith the Bill Worth Award Tuesday at the Statewide emergency manager’s conference in Franklin. “It really shocked me,” Smith said. “We were here […]
