Tornado Damage from March 3rd storm

[markhollin]

Tune Airport suffers $93 million in damages which includes the terminal, 17 hangars, the airfield, pavement, navigational aids, signage, lighting, fencing and utilities.

This estimate does not include damage to more than 90 destroyed aircraft and other personal property such as vehicles. No injuries were reported.

More at Nashville Post here:

https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/transportation/aviation/article/21120008/tune-airport-suffers-93m-in-damages

[Binbin98]

Basically half of hermitage is destroyed says my partner who lives there. The kroger and apartments next to it (where they temporarily live with their friends/roommates) are destroyed and a car flew through the air into someone's apartment balcony. Everyone I know in hermitage is ok, but of course I don't know everyone in hermitage. There could still be people there injured or in need of assistance.  Hopefully volunteers arrive, and I changed my spring break plans to return to Nashville to help out.

[Sean blackdog]

Update. Lebanon Police found body. 
Death tolls risen 25  
18 fatalities and 88 hurt and 21 still missing in Putnam County
4 fatalities and 1 hurt in Wilson County
2 fatalities and 156 hurt in Davidson County
1 fatality in Benton County

[Rockatansky]

I'm a couple of miles north of 5 Points and my neighborhood was unscathed.

I'm fairly certain that just as the 1998 tornado accelerated redevelopment and gentrification in East Nashville, this 2020 tornado will do the same to North Nashville. Hearing stories of vultures developers already out in the neighborhoods trying buy homes.

[dxfret]

2 hours ago, Binbin98 said:

Basically half of hermitage is destroyed says my partner who lives there. The kroger and apartments next to it (where they temporarily live with their friends/roommates) are destroyed and a car flew through the air into someone's apartment balcony. Everyone I know in hermitage is ok, but of course I don't know everyone in hermitage. There could still be people there injured or in need of assistance.  Hopefully volunteers arrive, and I changed my spring break plans to return to Nashville to help out.

TN is truly the Volunteer State. How generous to share yourself in that spirit. 

Edited March 4, 2020 by dxfret

[Edgefield D]

I didn’t have power til today.  I’m 2 streets off of Main. I woke up to thunder and lighting and got up to check the weather. Channel 2 said a tornado had touched down near TSU and was headed toward E Nashville. I went to the basement and the power/internet went out as soon as I got down there. It passed really quickly and I didn’t even realize it was a tornado. Came back up and my phone was dead...the tornado siren kept going off occasionally. I ended up falling asleep and didn’t realize how bad it was til the next morning when I went to my car to plug my phone in. I was very lucky. I walked up my street and the damage got worse the closer I got to 5 Points. 

Hope everyone is making it through ok. 

[Bos2Nash]

6 hours ago, Mr_Bond said:

NashSevereWx on Twitter was emphatic about what was coming.

Anytime I hear or see severe weather, these are the guys I listen too.

[Sean blackdog]

Other video. 
Crane Operator Stuck 375 Feet In The Air Records Harrowing Footage Of Nashville Tornado

 

 

[Sean blackdog]

Update again. 
Death tolls risen 25  
18 fatalities and 88 hurt and 17 still missing in Putnam County
4 fatalities and 1 hurt in Wilson County
2 fatalities and 156 hurt in Davidson County
1 fatality in Benton County

[chris holman]

Tornado damage to the Hopewell Baptist Chruch on Monroe Street 

[bnacincy]

Just looked at the pictures on the Nashville Scene website showing the devastation in East Nashville.

Painful.

 

[jmtunafish]

6 hours ago, Craiger said:

Yeah that's a good point. I think the Cookeville tornado could be counted as a bit of a miss by forecasters. It was just barely outside the area they gave a risk of tornado for. Nashville was in the 2% chance of tornado area. That seems low, but you have to remember there wasn't really a tornado outbreak either. most areas in middle TN didn't seen anything close to a tornado. 

And to be fair, there really was just one tornado.  But it went on for over 50 miles, ending just shy of Gordonsville in Smith County.  I know that's not a record, but it's gotta be up there.  The Cookeville tornado was an F-4 and was the first destructive tornado to hit Cookeville since 1974.

[grilled_cheese]

I drank beer and watched the Preds game on Monday night with no idea that a storm was coming.  I knew it was going to rain but tornadoes were not on my mind at all.  I went to bed at around 11pm and was awoken at 3AM because my phone was blowing up with people asking if we were okay.  I had no idea what was going on, got up, looked outside and just saw rain, responded to the texts and then went back to bed.

Maybe I'm just desensitized to every 'code red', thunderstorm warning, flash flood warning and tornado siren but none of them phase me anymore.  Maybe that will change now but we had little to no warning.  And just because some twitter handle posted stuff about it, that doesn't make up for the fact that none of the major local news outlets made a big deal out of what could happen.

Just my experience.

[downtownresident]

Granted this can still change, but it sounds like Vista Germantown will be repairing damages vs. tearing down per this Facebook post. Unfortunately everyone that was living there will be displaced in the interim. 
 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2770690209665803&id=118114388256745

[LA_TN]

@grilled_cheesehit a lot of points, especially the Code Red, this is the worst storm we've ever seen (since last week), etc

Ya might wanna skip this due to length

The National Weather Service first indicates that there was going to be severe weather on Sunday morning. By Monday morning, it became clear that tornadoes were possible and that preparations should be made. However, the threat was very low because it was believed that conditions to form a tornado would decrease by midnight. With that said, media outlets followed the lead of the NWS.

By 10pm Monday night, the NWS was sounding the alarm, but most people were going to bed by then. Ironically, the supercell (that produced the tornado) weakened as it approached Davidson County (as expected), then just exploded in a span of about 6 minutes. And the rest is history

The numbers where not there to hit the panic button until after 10pm

 

Sunday morning:

Monday morning - tornado possible:

Monday afternoon - tornado possible:

The 6pm (last) sounding prior to nightfall:

Monday evening - tornado possible:

Monday night - this sounds the alarm - uncertainty about severe weather threat - tornado possible:

First tornado west of Nashville:

Recognizing the potential severity of the situation, Tornado Watch is immediately issued - at 11:20 pm

Now the cell is weakening - as predicted - while approaching middle Tennessee:

Within SIX MINUTES of this scan, the tornado hit west Nashville:

And by now, the tornado on the ground confirmation has been relayed to NWS:

And of course this continues to Cookeville

Edited March 5, 2020 by LA_TN
Added pic

[markhollin]

Minute by minute, how the deadly tornado cut its path of ruin across Tennessee:

https://www.tennessean.com/in-depth/news/local/2020/03/05/timeline-how-deadly-tennessee-tornado-unfolded/4939190002/

 

More than 30 East Nashville businesses damaged and destroyed by the tornado:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/03/03/east-nashville-tornado-more-than-30-businesses-destroyed-damaged/4938796002/
 

Aerial slide show of damage:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/03/04/aerial-photos-show-tornado-damage-nashville-tennessee/4953008002/

Local businesses come up with ways to help tornado victims:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2020/03/03/local-businesses-want-help-nashville-area-tornado-survivors/4945082002/


North Nashville doesn't want to be forgotten again in tornado recovery:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/03/04/tornado-recovery-north-nashville-forgotten/4942814002/


Slideshow of recovery efforts in North Nashville and Germantown:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/03/04/slideshow-recovery-efforts-get-underway-in-north.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline




 

 

[bigeasy]

23 hours ago, Binbin98 said:

Also even though I only went there for swim meets it is still really crazy that DCA does not exist anymore.

My mom works at DCA. I still remember going to the school in 2010 to move as much as we could to the 2nd floor before the school flooded. She went yesterday to get as much as she could from her office. It will be interesting to see where they will have classes. I know for the flood the school was scattered around nearby churches.

 

Side note: it probably wasn't DCA for swim meets. They don't have a pool or swim team.

[MLBrumby]

Was listening to the Paul Finebaum show a couple days ago and he interviewed the football coach of DCA, Paul Wade. He said the various grades will continue the year at various churches in the area. No plan yet for next academic year. 

Incidentally, Paul Finebaum's program dedicated most of the past two days to Nashville and Cookeville. 

[CandyAisles]

I’ll rate that whole ordeal 1 out of 5 stars. Do not recommend.

Missed out home by a few feet. Neighbors aren’t so lucky.

[markhollin]

[Bos2Nash]

12 hours ago, downtownresident said:

Granted this can still change, but it sounds like Vista Germantown will be repairing damages vs. tearing down per this Facebook post. Unfortunately everyone that was living there will be displaced in the interim. 
 

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2770690209665803&id=118114388256745

My colleague told me that the building has been condemned and they will rebuild with a new structure. He used to live in the building and still has friends that live there.

2 hours ago, markhollin said:

I have been seeing alot of these warnings go up. I find it absolutely despicable that sleezeball "developers" will come in so soon to try and buy out people that are still in a state of shock over what happened to their neighborhood. I would hope if anyone comes across these folks they tell them to go screw and to get out of the area. I understand that disasters tend to spur development, but this is buy low and sell high developers that have no interest in the actual community and it is very disheartening.

[markhollin]

TSU has $20 million worth of damage from tornado:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/03/05/tornado-leaves-tsu-with-an-estimated-20-million-in.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

[markhollin]

Metro creates fast-track for tornado rebuild permits, and braces for overload:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/03/05/metro-creates-fast-track-for-tornado-rebuilding.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

[BnaBreaker]

1 hour ago, markhollin said:

TSU has $20 million worth of damage from tornado:

https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/03/05/tornado-leaves-tsu-with-an-estimated-20-million-in.html?iana=hpmvp_nsh_news_headline

So that's about $113 million and counting at just John C Tune and TSU alone... absolutely insane.  

[jdavidf]

On 3/3/2020 at 6:34 AM, titanhog said:

We need a roll call.  All Nashville UPers who see this thread...please sound off.

I'm on Ireland Street.  When I jumped out of the bed and looked south, everything looked pretty normal. Little did I know This thing was blowing through about 2 blocks north of me. By the time I got downstairs to closet under the stairs, it was pretty much over. I understand it was moving along around 50mph?

Power just came back on today. Thank dog there was no damage. Been a refugee in East Nashville until today. My friends' house was barely missed. What a week. I was in Donelson in 1998, here for the 2010 flood and now this.

 

David