Tornado Pictures

"Mount Juliet police sighted a funnel at the intersection of Nonavile Road and Highway 70 about 4pm. The storm cell touched down minutes later at Marvin's Building Supply off Mount Juliet Road, where the roof on a large warehouse was stripped. Another twister touched down near Carroll-Oakland Elementary School on Highway 231 North, six miles from Lebanon and at W.A. Wright Elementary off Highway 70 west of Mt. Juliet. The school's roof was damaged, as was a mobile home near the school. In Lebanon, a twister touched down near the intersection of Hartmann Drive and West Main Street. Ten businesses [were] damaged, five mobile homes destroyed, about six homes badly damaged."

--The Tennessean p. 6A, April 17, 1998

"WKRN-Channel 2 weathercaster Lisa Patton was caught in an emotional situation when she spotted a tornado on radar and realized it was passing directly over her home in Mount Juliet, knowing that her two children and husband were in the house.
"I lost my composure for just a few minutes. I'm a mom first," Patton said. "I just needed to know they were OK. It was pretty scary for me."
She also had to take charge of things when one of the station's reporters got too close to danger.
"Brette Lea was on the air with a storm and lightning all around her. I demanded that they pull her off. There was just too much danger, too much lightning," Patton said, "I told them, 'Get that microphone out of her hand.'"

--The Tennessean p. 24A, April 19, 1998

Here are some recent pictures of damage from the tornado that swept through Nashville (including Hermitage and Mt. Juliet) on April 16, 1998.
Click on the smaller picture to get a larger, more detailed picture.

A tree at the Hermitage.	A fallen tree nearly crushes a car.
A U-Haul/Storage business in Mt. Juliet along Lebanon Road.	Another picture of the U-Haul place.
Would you like to buy a mobile home? (This was taken at a mobile home business on Lebanon Road)	More trees at the Hermitage snapped in half like toothpicks.
The Tulip Grove Mansion survived the storm, just barely.	The Tulip Grove Mansion again.

Nashville Tornado Pictures at other sites

Gadget Guru
Vanderbilt University
Digital Tour of Nashville
Glwork Graphic Tornado Pictures

Other Related Sites

NewsChannel5
WSMV
The Hermitage, Home of Andrew Jackson
The Tornado Project
Disaster Relief

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