4/10 - 9pm - Tennessee Tornadoes

We were lucky to only see pea-sized hail and heavy rain here in Louisville today, but areas to our south fared much, much worse. The worst of the weather was in Rutherford County, TN, where I was born and lived for the first few weeks of my life before moving to Louisville. A tornado ripped through Murfreesboro, TN and traveled through other Rutherford County towns like Smyrna, destroying more than 20 homes, killing two people, and leaving dozens injured. Here's a picture of the well-defined tornado over the Murfreesboro Airport, home to the Middle Tennessee State University aerospace program:



A damage survey will be completed tomorrow by the NWS in Nashville to determine the scale of this tornado. I know Rutherford County pretty well (30 miles south of Nashville), so seeing the pictures and reading the reports out of that area is pretty shocking.

There were tornadoes with reported injuries in other parts of the Southeast as well, including Kentucky:



For a complete wrap-up of today's tornado damage, click here.

Rain should continue for a couple more hours tonight before clearing out for a beautiful Easter weekend. We should see 60 degrees for tomorrow, but I think we'll warm up a bit more for Easter Sunday, possibly into the mid 60's. Rain chances pick up quite a bit on Monday.