List of Upper Cumberland tornadoes

This is a list of tornadoes to strike the Upper Cumberland region.
==List of officially-recorded tornadoes==
Date 	Counties 	Fujita Rating	Deaths	Injuries	Length 	Ref
April 3, 1880 	Overton 	? 	? 	? 	? 	
April 25, 1880 	Cumberland 	F2 	? 	? 	? 	
November 6, 1885 	Coffee, Warren 	? 	? 	? 	? 	
March 27, 1890 	Sumner, Macon 	F3 	5 	50 	25.0 mi. 	
April 30, 1909 	Wilson, DeKalb 	F2 	0 	2 	15 mi. 	"April 29, 1909 Tornado Outbreak". Web. Accessed 29 April 2019.
April 30, 1909 	Putnam 	F2 	0 	2 	6 mi. 	
April 30, 1909 	Fentress 	F1 	0 	0 	? 	
April 30, 1909 	Fentress, Morgan, Scott 	F2 	1 	4 	20 mi. 	
January 21, 1916 	Warren 	F2 	0 	? 	1.0 mi. 	
April 14, 1922 	Wilson, Smith 	F2 	0 	8 	20.0 mi. 	
January 24, 1928 	DeKalb 	F1 	4 	6 	1.0 mi. 	
June 28, 1928 	Cumberland 	F2 	0 	7 	? 	
June 29, 1928 	Wilson, DeKalb 	F2 	0 	12 	5.0 mi. 	
March 14, 1933 	Davidson, Wilson, Smith 	F3 	15 	45 	45.0 mi. 	
May 10, 1933 	Overton, Pickett 	F4 	35 	150 	11.0 mi. 	
September 4, 1939 	White 	F2 	1 	6 	6.0 mi. 	
March 27, 1950 	Warren 	F1 	0 	0 	0.2 mi. 	
February 29, 1952 	Warren 	F2 	0 	0 	1.0 mi. 	
March 22, 1952 	Smith 	F1 	0 	1 	0.3 mi. 	
January 20, 1953 	Warren 	F2 	0 	0 	0.5 mi. 	
March 5, 1955 	Wilson, DeKalb 	F2 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
March 5, 1955 	Smith 	F1 	0 	3 	0.5 mi. 	
May 12, 1955 	Putnam, Overton 	F1 	0 	1 	9.4 mi. 	
February 17, 1956 	Fentress 	F1 	0 	2 	0.1 mi. 	
February 27, 1956 	Fentress 	F1 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
March 7, 1956 	Overton 	F2 	0 	0 	4.3 mi. 	
July 13, 1956 	Putnam 	F1 	0 	0 	0.2 mi. 	
January 22, 1957 	Coffee, Warren 	F2 	0 	0 	4.7 mi. 	
April 8, 1957 	Cumberland 	F2 	0 	0 	2.7 mi. 	
November 18, 1957 	Fentress 	F2 	0 	2 	13.9 mi. 	
March 13, 1961 	Warren 	F3 	0 	0 	9.3 mi. 	
March 11, 1963 	Warren 	F2 	0 	0 	5.2 mi. 	
March 17, 1965 	White 	F1 	0 	2 	2.0 mi. 	
March 17, 1965 	Warren 	F1 	0 	1 	1.0 mi. 	
April 15, 1965 	Fentress 	F2 	0 	0 	5.9 mi. 	
April 15, 1965 	Cumberland 	F3 	1 	0 	6.5 mi. 	
May 13, 1966 	White 	F1 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
April 23, 1968 	DeKalb 	F1 	0 	1 	0.1 mi. 	
April 1, 1970 	Smith 	F1 	0 	2 	3.6 mi. 	
April 27, 1971 	Wilson, DeKalb 	F3 	0 	3 	15.0 mi. 	
May 14, 1972 	Fentress 	F2 	0 	3 	1.0 mi. 	
June 28, 1972 	Cumberland 	F2 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
March 15, 1973 	White 	F2 	1 	3 	0.1 mi. 	
May 10, 1973 	Putnam 	F1 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
May 11, 1973 	Smith, Macon 	F1 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
May 23, 1973 	Cumberland 	F1 	0 	0 	1.0 mi. 	
November 26, 1973 	Overton 	F1 	0 	0 	2.0 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Cannon, DeKalb 	F3 	1 	23 	14.6 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Overton 	F1 	0 	0 	4.3 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Jackson, Overton 	F1 	0 	0 	15.8 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Wilson, Trousdale, Smith 	F2 	0 	0 	15.8 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Overton 	F3 	3 	120 	9.4 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Warren 	F2 	1 	1 	8.7 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Warren 	F1 	0 	1 	7.2 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Cumberland, White 	F2 	0 	28 	16.2 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	White, Putnam, Overton 	F4 	10 	51 	28.4 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	White 	F1 	0 	0 	3.0 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Fentress, Pickett, McCreary 	F2 	0 	11 	27.4 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Fentress 	F4 	7 	150 	18.8 mi. 	
April 3, 1974 	Pickett, Wayne 	F4 	5 	6 	11.0 mi. 	
April 24, 1975 	Cumberland 	F2 	1 	4 	1.5 mi. 	
March 28, 1977 	Macon 	F2 	0 	0 	0.3 mi. 	
September 25, 1977	Cumberland 	F0 	0 	0 	5.1 mi. 	
October 1, 1977 	Overton 	F0 	0 	1 	7.2 mi. 	
April 18, 1978 	White 	F1 	0 	0 	0.5 mi. 	
June 30, 1979 	Jackson 	F1 	2 	1 	2.0 mi. 	
June 24, 1980 	Warren 	F1 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
August 29, 1980 	DeKalb 	F1 	0 	0 	0.8 mi. 	
May 29, 1983 	White 	F1 	0 	1 	1.0 mi. 	
May 6, 1984 	Macon 	F1 	0 	0 	2.0 mi. 	
May 7, 1984 	DeKalb 	F1 	0 	0 	2.0 mi. 	
May 7, 1984 	Putnam 	F1 	0 	0 	1.0 mi. 	
May 7, 1984 	Fentress 	F1 	0 	0 	0.5 mi. 	
May 26, 1986 	Pickett 	F0 	0 	0 	0.8 mi. 	
June 9, 1990 	Jackson 	F0 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
February 21, 1993 	Putnam 	F3 	0 	6 	10.0 mi. 	
February 21, 1993 	Cumberland 	F0 	0 	0 	5.0 mi. 	
May 12, 1993 	Fentress 	F0 	0 	0 	0.8 mi. 	
May 14, 1995 	Putnam 	F0 	0 	0 	0.5 mi. 	
May 18, 1995 	DeKalb, Warren 	F0 	0 	0 	2.0 mi. 	
May 18, 1995 	Macon 	F1 	0 	0 	1.0 mi. 	
May 18, 1995 	Cumberland 	F3 	0 	20 	9.0 mi. 	
May 18, 1995 	Van Buren 	F0 	0 	0 	7.0 mi. 	
May 18, 1995 	Cumberland 	F1 	0 	0 	2.0 mi. 	
March 16, 1996 	Fentress 	F0 	0 	0 	7.0 mi. 	
March 16, 1996 	Overton 	F2 	0 	1 	6.0 mi. 	
January 24, 1997 	Putnam 	F1 	0 	0 	13.0 mi. 	
January 24, 1997 	Jackson 	F2 	0 	0 	3.2 mi. 	
January 24, 1997 	Smith 	F2 	0 	6 	14.0 mi. 	
January 24, 1997 	DeKalb 	F2 	0 	1 	2.0 mi. 	
January 24, 1997 	DeKalb 	F2 	0 	0 	7.3 mi. 	
March 28, 1997 	Smith 	F1 	0 	0 	1.0 mi. 	
March 28, 1997 	Overton 	F2 	0 	2 	5.9 mi. 	
April 3, 1998 	Jackson 	F2 	0 	0 	10.0 mi. 	
April 3, 1998 	Pickett 	F1 	0 	0 	5.5 mi. 	
April 16, 1998 	Macon 	F2 	0 	0 	3.0 mi. 	
April 16, 1998 	Pickett 	F3 	0 	4 	8.6 mi. 	
November 10, 2002 	Cumberland 	F1 	0 	0 	3.4 mi. 	
November 10, 2002 	Cumberland 	F0 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
November 10, 2002 	Cumberland 	F3 	4 	18 	12.2 mi. 	
November 10, 2002 	Van Buren 	F2 	0 	0 	2.9 mi. 	
March 19, 2003 	Putnam 	F1 	1 	1 	12.2 mi. 	
March 19, 2003 	White 	F1 	0 	0 	3.6 mi. 	
March 19, 2003 	Fentress 	F0 	0 	0 	0.1 mi. 	
March 19, 2003 	Warren 	F1 	0 	1 	0.5 mi. 	
April 7, 2006 	Warren 	F1 	2 	0 	11.0 mi. 	
April 7, 2006 	Warren 	F1 	1 	0 	4.0 mi. 	
April 7, 2006 	Cumberland 	F1 	0 	4 	6.2 mi. 	
April 3, 2007 	Cumberland 	F1 	0 	0 	4.83 mi. 	
April 26, 2007 	Cumberland 	F0 	0 	0 	7.94 mi. 	
November 14, 2007 	White 	F0 	0 	0 	0.67 mi. 	
November 14, 2007 	Jackson 	F1 	0 	0 	0.12 mi. 	
February 5, 2008 	Sumner, Trousdale, Macon,Monroe, Cumberland (KY)	F3 	22 	63 	50.32 mi.	
April 11, 2008 	White 	F1 	0 	0 	1.75 mi. 	
April 11, 2008 	Warren 	F1 	0 	0 	14.96 mi.	
February 11, 2009 	Fentress 	F1 	0 	0 	0.52 mi. 	
April 10, 2009 	Putnam 	F1 	0 	0 	6.0 mi. 	
May 3, 2009 	Cumberland 	F1 	0 	0 	3.2 mi. 	
May 8, 2009 	Fentress 	F1 	0 	0 	0.52 mi. 	
July 28, 2009 	Warren 	F1 	0 	0 	0.62 mi. 	
September 7, 2009 	Warren 	F0 	0 	0 	2.04 mi. 	
April 24, 2010 	Macon 	F0 	0 	0 	1.51 mi. 	
March 23, 2011 	White 	F2 	0 	0 	9.0 mi. 	
April 27, 2011 	Warren 	F1 	0 	0 	13.17 mi.	
April 27, 2011 	Jackson 	F1 	0 	0 	3.34 mi. 	
April 27, 2011 	Jackson 	F0 	0 	0 	1.96 mi. 	
April 27, 2011 	Cumberland 	F0 	0 	0 	5.6 mi. 	
April 27, 2011 	Smith 	F0 	0 	0 	3.43 mi. 	
May 26, 2011 	DeKalb 	F0 	0 	0 	1.93 mi. 	
February 29, 2012 	Cumberland 	F2 	2 	7 	6.18 mi. 	
February 29, 2012 	DeKalb, White 	F1 	1 	0 	14.84 mi.	
February 29, 2012 	White 	F0 	0 	0 	2.16 mi. 	
March 2, 2012 	Fentress 	F0 	0 	0 	6.42 mi. 	
March 2, 2012 	Overton 	F2 	0 	0 	6.94 mi. 	
March 2, 2012 	Putnam 	F1 	0 	0 	1.65 mi. 	
March 2, 2012 	Jackson 	F2 	0 	20 	3.7 mi. 	
October 1, 2012 	Smith 	F1 	0 	0 	1.47 mi. 	
January 30, 2013 	Macon 	EF0 	0 	0 	1 mi. 	
January 30, 2013 	Macon 	EF0 	0 	0 	1.5 mi. 	
April 28, 2014 	White 	EF1 	0 	0 	2.1 mi. 	
July 13, 2015 	Cumberland (KY), Clay 	EF0 	0 	0 	1.5 mi. 	
July 14, 2015 	Putnam 	EF1 	0 	0 	2.5 mi. 	
July 14, 2015 	Pickett, Fentress 	EF1 	0 	0 	11 mi. 	
December 23, 2015 	DeKalb, Smith 	EF2 	0 	0 	8.5 mi. 	"Rare December Tornado Strikes Near Lancaster." 26 December 2015. Web. Accessed 26 December 2015.
March 1, 2017 	Smith 	EF1 	0 	0 	3.7 mi. 	"March 1, 2017 Tornadoes & Severe Storms." 3 March 2017. Web. Accessed 3 March 2017.
March 1, 2017 	Putnam 	EF1 	0 	0 	8.75 mi. 	
March 1, 2017 	Putnam 	EF1 	0 	0 	0.15 mi. 	
April 5, 2017 	Warren 	EF1 	0 	1 	3.0 mi. 	"April 5, 2017 Severe Storms." 6 April 2017. Web. Accessed 7 April 2017.
May 25, 2017 	Smith 	EF0 	0 	0 	2.1 mi. 	"NWS confirms tornado to have struck the Hiwassee Road area in Wednesday’s storms." 25 May 2017. Web. Accessed 29 May 2017.
September 25, 2018	Fentress 	EF1 	0 	0 	0.5 mi. 	"NWS Damage Survey for 9/25/2018 Tornado Event". Weather.gov. 27 September 2018. Web. Accessed 27 September 2018.
November 6, 2018 	Cannon, DeKalb 	EF1 	0 	0 	8.82 mi. 	"November 5-6, 2018 Tornado Outbreak". 8 November 2018. Web. Accessed 8 November 2018.
November 6, 2018 	White 	EF0 	0 	0 	3.88 mi. 	
June 21, 2019 	Macon 	EF1 	0 	0 	1.7 mi. 	
June 21, 2019 	Fentress 	EF1 	0 	0 	3 mi. 	
February 5, 2020 	Warren 	EF0 	0 	0 	6.54 mi. 	
February 5, 2020 	White 	EF1 	0 	0 	4.03 mi. 	
February 5, 2020 	White 	EF1 	0 	0 	6.16 mi. 	
March 3 2020 	Davidson, Wilson, Smith 	EF3 	6 	220 	60.13 mi.	
March 3 2020 	Smith, Putnam 	EF0 	0 	0 	5.88 mi. 	
March 3 2020 	Putnam 	EF4 	19 	88 	8.21 mi. 	
March 3 2020 	Putnam 	EF0 	0 	0 	0.23 mi. 	
March 3 2020 	Cumberland 	EF0 	0 	0 	> 1 mi. 	
March 29, 2020 	White 	EF0 	0 	0 	6.88 mi. 	
April 25, 2020 	Wilson, Smith 	EF1 	0 	3 	3.81 mi. 	
August 28, 2020 	Warren 	EF0 	0 	0 	1.53 mi. 	
August 28, 2020 	Putnam 	EF0 	0 	0 	2.38 mi. 	
April 8, 2021 	Cumberland 	EF0 	0 	0 	5.80 mi. 	
May 4, 2021 	Macon 	EF0 	0 	0 	1.93 mi. 	
May 4, 2021 	DeKalb 	EF0 	0 	0 	1.03 mi. 	
May 4, 2021 	DeKalb 	EF0 	0 	0 	2.92 mi. 	
May 4, 2021 	White 	EF0 	0 	0 	1.11 mi. 	
May 28, 2021 	Putnam 	EF0 	0 	0 	9.03 mi. 	
May 28, 2021 	Overton 	EF0 	0 	2 	1.00 mi. 	
October 6, 2021 	Cumberland 	EF1 	0 	0 	1.01 mi. 	
December 6, 2021 	Overton 	EF0 	0 	0 	2.61 mi. 	
December 6, 2021 	Overton, Pickett 	EF0 	0 	0 	2.82 mi. 	
December 11, 2021 	Smith, Jackson 	EF0 	0 	0 	7.30 mi. 	
December 11, 2021 	Clay, Monroe (KY) 	EF1 	0 	0 	7.41 mi. 	
April 1, 2023 	Trousdale, Macon 	EF1 	0 	0 	6.22 mi. 	
June 11, 2023 	Fentress 	EF1 	0 	0 	10.80 mi.	
June 11, 2023 	Cumberland 	EF1 	0 	0 	1.63 mi. 	
June 11, 2023 	Fentress 	EF1 	0 	0 	1.80 mi. 	
May 6, 2024 	DeKalb 	EF1 	0 	0 	3.30 mi. 	
==Unconfirmed tornadoes==
Historical accounts sometimes describe tornadoes not found in official weather records. 
*1830: An unknown amount of damage is caused by a tornado that strikes Carthage.
*October 22, 1873: A tornado sweeps across Hickory Valley in White County, carrying parts of one home at least twenty miles.
*1903: A “cyclone” strikes Spencer, destroying part of the courthouse.Medley, Landon Daryle. The History of Van Buren County, Tennessee: “The Early Canebreakers” 1840-1940. Salem, WV: Don Mills, Inc., 1987.
*1909: These may have all been the same event, most likely on April 30:
** April 20, 1909: A windstorm "of great cyclonic power" caused $15,000 of damage in Putnam County. The most notable result was the destruction of the Web & Crawford Planing Mill.
**1909: A tornado moves the Algood Methodist Church off its foundation.
**April 30, 1909: Around 1 AM a tornado, reportedly having started in Mississippi and traveled hundreds of miles from there to its end in Scott County, hits Algood and Cookeville.Nunn, Roscoe. "TORNADOES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THOSE THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN TENNESSEE." 10 May 2009. Web. Accessed 1 February 2015.
*March 21, 1913: A "cyclone" causes much property damage across many Middle Tennessee counties, including DeKalb and Smith. The greatest damage was at Murfreesboro.
*Late 1927 or early 1928: Cherry Creek School in White County is demolished by a tornado.
*1939: Virgil Crockett and Cora Lee Neal of Fentress County are killed in a supposed tornado.
*In the early 1970s: A tornado strikes the Sparta Drive-In Theatre.
*April 15, 1974: Twelve days after the Super Outbreak of April 3, another tornado strikes Putnam County, damaging the roof of the high school and "a number of barns".
==References==
*"Assorted Historical Weather Events in Middle Tennessee." http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ohx/?n=historicalevents 14 December 2012. Web. Accessed 10 May 2014.
* "Database: Tornado History of Middle Tennessee." http://data3.tennessean.com/view-database/tornado-history-of-middle-tennessee-200.html 2012. Web. Accessed 30 March 2014.
*"EF-1 tornado in White County from storms on April 28." http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=OHX&product=PNS&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1 National Weather Service office in Nashville, TN. 1 May 2014. Web. Accessed 3 May 2014.
*"List of United States tornadoes from January to February 2013." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_from_January_to_February_2013 14 April 2014. Web. Accessed 29 April 2014.
*"Putnam, TN Oldest Church Celebrates on May 31, 2009." http://www.ajlambert.com/history/hst_aumc.pdf 2009. Web. Accessed 21 April 2014.
*"Tornadoes in Fentress County." http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnfentre/docs/tornados.html n.d. Web. Accessed 11 April 2014.
*Coggins, Allen R. Tennessee Tragedies: Natural, Technological, and Societal Disasters in the Volunteer State. University of Tennessee Press, 2012.
*Lietz, Joshua. "Tornado History Project: Tennessee." http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/Tennessee 2014. Web. Accessed 30 March 2014.
*McMillan, Bob. "Government giving away flour: 1932 Depression". Cookeville Herald-Citizen. 13 April 2014. Web. Accessed 13 April 2014.
*McPeak, Joe, Thelma Pippin, and Geraldine Pollard. Heritage of White County 1806-1999. Waynesville, North Carolina: Walsworth Publishing, Inc., 1999.
*Seals, Monroe. History of White County. Sparta: Sparta Civitan Club, 1935.
*White County Retired Teachers' Association. Schools of White County Tennessee 1806-2006. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006.
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