The Great Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak of 2008

Dr. Jeff Masters: "The death toll from the 2008 Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak makes it the deadliest tornado outbreak in the past 23 years."

And it's the deadliest tornado outbreak this early on the calendar since 1949.

The death toll is at least 54.

As Dr. Masters's map demonstrates, East Tennessee was spared. By the time the thunderstorms got here around 8:00 AM this morning, they were producing only torrential rains, gusty winds and lightning -- nothing too terrible. Later in the day, after the cold front that produced the storms had moved through, we got (and are still getting) some pretty strong winds on the back side of the system, causing the Tennessee River to look rather choppy from the parking garage where I park for work:

But yeah, no tornadoes or anything similarly devastating, thank goodness.

In West Tennessee (see also here) and Middle Tennessee, of course, it's an entirely different story.

Comments

[Jay Johnson]

You could also link to jacksonsun.com which is the local paper in jackson, TN (where I used to live) and where a lot of the major media outlets have been today.