The Forgotten F5 and Nashville F3 | The April 16, 1998 Tornado Outbreak

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1. Nothing tops Moore, Ok 1999 F-6 318 mph

2. This is such an interesting storm to me. I was just 3 months old at the time and my family was living in Murfreesboro. We werent in the direct path, but close enough. My parents have told me stories of that day time and time again. Kinda surreal to find video of it.

3. We lived about 50 miles east of Nashville, but my dad worked in downtown. We didn't get much at home other than standard thunderstorm stuff (typical), but it still made me nervous. I was 11 at the time. I've always remembered this day, and I particularly remember watching the live news coverage with my mom, like when it hit News Channel 5.

4. Great coverage and video! Personally I wasn’t alive during this event but I still love learning about weather past events so thank you for that!

5. Being a "great" city of the South is like being a great poop in a toilet.

6. I’m from Dickson County and I remember this. I remember my parents driving us around to look at the damage.

   Anybody remember the ice storm of ‘94? I’ll definitely never forget that! We didn’t have electricity for 13 days. Thank god we had a wood stove in the basement, camping gear, and a spring. Mama and Daddy would bring water from the spring and we would heat it up on the wood stove and take a “whore bath”, mama called it😂 I’ll never forget the sound of the trees cracking and breaking in the woods. It was a disaster.

7. The one that Nashville was more of a super cell. I think there was some disagreement over if it was actually a tornado

8. The US community which has suffered the highest percentage loss of population to a tornado is Udall, Kansas. In May 1955 the farming town of 560 persons was LITERALLY obliterated by a nighttime EF5. 87 were killed, including 4 entire families, and injuring another 200.

9. 14:08 Apocalyptic?

   Trees grow back. Buildings can be rebuilt. Human life isn't replaceable.

   ANDOVER was apocalyptic.
   BRIDGE CREEK was apocalyptic.
   JOPLIN was apocalyptic.
   MOORE was apocalyptic.
   MURPHYSBORO was apocalyptic.
   TUSCALOOSA was apocalyptic.
   XENIA was apocalyptic.

10. In 1899 my hometown New Richmond WI took a direct hit from an EF5, destroying 100 homes, 7 of 9 public buildings and all but one of the businesses in town. 117 were killed and another 250 injured. The fatalities included 20 who died from injuries after the storm and 5 who were never identified.

    Meteorologically speaking it was the first classified EF5 in US history to exact a triple digit death toll. Today it ranks as the deadliest on record in Wisconsin and 9th in the US

11. I was managing New York Bagel (across from the Villager) on 21st when it hit.

    Got all my customers/employees into the bathrooms quick as I could then went on the roof…Crazy day.

12. Damn! I was 9 living just north of Nashville at the time. The sky was gnarly that day!

13. that EF5 tornado reached speeds up to 318 mph, fastest of the day let alone the year. If that had gone into a city like Nashville or any heavy populated area, we would be talking about a literal nightmare that would’ve likely killed hundreds or thousands of people let alone the damage would be even more devastating

14. Do a video on the Greensburg, KS 🌪 of 2007!!

15. I remember this because I lived through it. I was on spring break in elementary school.

16. I was working in Waycross GA for a company just outside Nashville that day. It made a mess of our shop but no major damage other than two pole barns that were scheduled to be taken down so saved us a little money

17. I was born a few years removed from this event, but my dad saw the F5 cross 43 on his way home from work. 2 decades later I would visit Tennessee Tech a few weeks before the EF-4 tornado hit. Been a weather nerd all of my life but missed two of our state's most powerful tornadoes.

18. April 16th is my birthday and when I was just a few hours old April 16th 2001 there was a tornado outbreak in Kansas

19. There was one in the eastern region of Tennessee a few years later

20. I was living in Nashville and in the bank of america building when it happened. This storm had destroyed the titans stadium while it was just being built

21. I always wondered what went through the minds the crew of that freight train in the footage filmed at the back of the news studio.

22. Americans got to be some of the most ignorant people i have ever seen. Who in the fuk gets in front of a damn glass door when there is high winds. Wow.

23. Andrew jackson!!??Jackson!!??! Stupid woke tornado

24. I remember this day as a tornado touched down in cedar hill/adams in robertson county wwhere i was in school at jo byrns it went right over the top of us

25. I was there, not far from the Hermitage. I remember it well

26. Who says anyone forgot about the 1998 tornado in Nashville. I lived in Nashville when it happened. I haven't forgotten it. I doubt anyone who lived there or near there forgot about it.

27. i take daily walks at Cornelia Fort 😳

28. Same month I experienced my first f5 in Birmingham Alabama

29. I think I remember this outbreak. Terrible. Stay safe y’all!

30. I would scream if that happened to me

31. I still remember this day. I was in 6th grade and my class was in a portable classroom. We ended up spending almost the entire day in a hallway in the main building, as the storms were training across the same areas over and over. One tornado was on a direct path towards my school, lifting just a few streets away, then it set back down between my school and my dad’s work, lifted again only blocks from his job and then touching down again on the other side.

32. It's pretty rare for them to hit metro areas….no?

33. I lived in Nashville, I call this hillbilly nightmare, Nashtrash.

34. I was 10 yrs old at the old rec center in Columbia when it came over the news that Nashville was hit. I can still remember that day clearly.

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