Power Outage in Hohenwald, TN

Several hours of severe non-thunderstorm winds resulted in numerous damage reports, including downed and uprooted trees, downed powerlines, and roof and other property damage across all of Lewis County. About an estimated 1,500 customers were without power. Damages are estimated.

A strong EF-2 tornado touched down just northeast of the city of Waynesboro between Highway 64 and Highway 99. The tornado increased in intensity rapidly as it tracked through neighborhoods along Highway 99. A few trees and outbuildings were blown down and destroyed at the beginning of the track before the tornado moved across Steele Street, Hassell Drive, High Street, and Natural Bridge Road, taking the roofs off several homes and causing one minor injury. Five high power TVA electrical steel poles were bent to the ground in this area, knocking out power to all of Wayne County. Continuing northeastward, the tornado destroyed a barn on York Road and damaged several homes on Fortyeight Creek Road. The tornado then moved through rural, forested and hilly terrain with few roads for a total of 22.2 miles across northeast Wayne, extreme southern Lewis, and extreme northwestern Lawrence Counties, blowing down hundreds of trees before finally lifting around 4 miles northwest of Summertown.

A strong EF-2 tornado touched down just northeast of the city of Waynesboro between Highway 64 and Highway 99. The tornado increased in intensity rapidly as it tracked through neighborhoods along Highway 99. A few trees and outbuildings were blown down and destroyed at the beginning of the track before the tornado moved across Steele Street, Hassell Drive, High Street, and Natural Bridge Road, taking the roofs off several homes and causing one minor injury. Five high power TVA electrical steel poles were bent to the ground in this area, knocking out power to all of Wayne County. Continuing northeastward, the tornado destroyed a barn on York Road and damaged several homes on Fortyeight Creek Road. The tornado then moved through rural, forested and hilly terrain with few roads for a total of 22.2 miles across northeast Wayne, extreme southern Lewis, and extreme northwestern Lawrence Counties, blowing down hundreds of trees before finally lifting around 4 miles northwest of Summertown.

A strong EF-2 tornado touched down just northeast of the city of Waynesboro between Highway 64 and Highway 99. The tornado increased in intensity rapidly as it tracked through neighborhoods along Highway 99. A few trees and outbuildings were blown down and destroyed at the beginning of the track before the tornado moved across Steele Street, Hassell Drive, High Street, and Natural Bridge Road, taking the roofs off several homes and causing one minor injury. Five high power TVA electrical steel poles were bent to the ground in this area, knocking out power to all of Wayne County. Continuing northeastward, the tornado destroyed a barn on York Road and damaged several homes on Fortyeight Creek Road. The tornado then moved through rural, forested and hilly terrain with few roads for a total of 22.2 miles across northeast Wayne, extreme southern Lewis, and extreme northwestern Lawrence Counties, blowing down hundreds of trees before finally lifting around 4 miles northwest of Summertown.

Several trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 412 from Little Swan Creek Road eastward to the Maury County line.

Trees and power lines were blown down across Lewis County with power outages, especially on Highway 20.

Power lines were blown down at Smith Street and Walnut Street in Hohenwald.

Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 48N at Forrest Avenue in Hohenwald.

Precipitation totals across Lewis County were around 1 of combined ice and sleet. A trained spotter 5 miles west of Hohenwald measured 1.1 of sleet and 0.1 of ice, while a CoCoRaHS observer 4.0 miles WNW of Hohenwald measured 0.9 of sleet and 0.1 of ice. Scattered trees and power lines were knocked down across the county, and many roads and schools were closed.

An EF1 tornado moved out of Wayne County into Lewis County where 5 power poles were snapped along Seiber Ridge Road and numerous more trees were uprooted. Aerial imagery from Google Earth greatly assisted with this storm survey.

A couple of trees were downed with power outages on Morris Road and Long Branch Road.

In Holenwald, one tenth to one quarter of an inch of ice accumulation from freezing rain on elevated surfaces such as trees and power lines. Some trees also toppled over across this area too due to the ice accumulations while others experienced significant bending due to ice accumulations. This all resulted in a significant impact to commerce and transportation in and around this area from the evening hours on Tuesday, January 15th through the early morning hours on Wednesday, January 16th.

Emergency Manager reported numerous trees and power lines blown down and roof damage to buildings along Swan Avenue near Park Street in Hohenwald.

Trees were downed on cars and resulted in power outages on Howard Switch Road. Specific details concerning any damage to the cars were unknown.

One quarter to one half of an inch of ice accumulations on trees, power lines, and other exposed surfaces caused scattered to widespread power outages across the county. Newspaper reported that in the Big Swan Area of western Lewis County, that so many trees were down in that area that the Lewis County Road Supervisor had to hire a contractor to help in the clearing. Meriwether Lewis Cooperative reported that at least 200 homes lost power for a few hours across the county due to ice accumulations on power lines also.

Tress were down on power lines in Hohenwald.

Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power lines were down around the county.

Power was reported out in the western part of the city.