Friday, April 10, 2009

BREAKING NEWS: Tornado Strikes Murfreesboro-TN



WSMV-TV4 in Nashville and The MURFREESBORO POST newspaper is reporting a tornado has touched down in northern Murfreesboro.


Murfreesboro is about 25 miles southeast of Nashville.



There are reports of destroyed homes- people trapped in homes- and a car picked up and thrown. There are yet no injury reports.

UPDATE - 1337 CDT - A Nashville medical center is reporting "they have received 9 patients from the Blackman area"- a northwestern suburb of Murfreesboro- and were "expecting 4 more" patients.

Their conditions were unreported.


Related posts on this tornado can be found HERE and HERE.



Here are some Doppler weather radar images from Nashville NWS radar.

The first is the base reflectivity (standard radar view) and the radial velocity (winds) showing the red-green "couplet" of the tornado itself over northern Murfreesboro.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Murfreesboro is NOT 75 miles from Nashville, it is more like 25 miles.

Groucho K. Marx said...

My bad- thanx.

-Groucho

LMACK said...
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