PUTNAM CO TORNADO UPGRADED TO EF-4, MOST VIOLENT STORM IN 46 YEARS
FROM METEOROLOGIST MARK BALDWIN
The Putnam County tornado has now been rated EF-4. This is the most violent tornado in the NWS Nashville forecast area since 2009. Putnam County hasn’t seen a tornado this strong since April, 3, 1974. In fact, there hasn’t been a tornado this violent in our entire region since that 1974 outbreak.
This is only the fifth F-4 tornado to have ever hit the Upper Cumberlands. The other four include were the F-4 tornado of 1933 in Overton County (35 lives lost north of Livingston). The other three F-4s occurred in the same tornado outbreak on April 3, 1974. That was the Super Outbreak that hit 13 states with 148 tornadoes. The Upper Cumberlands were hit especially hard during that outbreak.
