by Steve Norris, Smith County Insider Weather Correspondent
Beautiful weather is coming for most of your weekend and it will begin with sunshine and 72 degrees on Friday. Saturday is looking mostly sunny with temperatures up to 80 degrees. Sunday we could see a late-afternoon thunderstorm, but most of the day partly sunny and 82 degrees.
In the evening we have the planet Venus along with a crescent moon in the Western sky. It is a lovely sight so be sure and check it out if you get a chance! Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars are appearing together around 3 to 4 a.m. In the Southeastern sky.
Next week we will recap the month of April and look ahead to May.
It has been a rough tornado season in Middle Tennessee and we have at least two more weeks of it to go. On April 25th Smith & Wilson counties were once again affected by a tornado. One severe storm managed to produce an EF-1 tornado in eastern Wilson County, which then crossed into western Smith County. The tornado was on the ground for only seven minutes with the worst damage located along and south of Interstate 40 (near mile marker 248). A traffic accident caused by the tornado resulted in three injuries on Interstate 40, but fortunately no fatalities were reported.
The tornado occurred at 4:45 in the afternoon and had Winds near 90 miles per hour. It crossed into Smith County where minor tree damage was once again observed on Opossum Hollow Road along with a destroyed outbuilding. In addition, this is where a lumber/mill yard (Grant Cedar Mill) received damage and was also hit by the EF-3 tornado on March 3, 2020. From there, it became very difficult to determine if this tornado maintained any intensity at all as it had weakened considerably to an EF-0 and crossed into the remnants of the EF-3 March 3, 2020 tornado path, so that is where we believe the tornado ended; just beyond Grant Highway.
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Steve Norris got his first job at 18 years old doing radio weather. Steve does forecasts for several radio stations and newspapers, and he serves as a severe weather meteorologist for some city governments in the Middle Tennessee area. Steve first became interested in weather when his grandfather bought him a thermometer when he was 10 years old. He has been loving weather for over 40 years.
If you need weather data or have any weather-related questions or comments, you can reach Steve Norris anytime at weather1@charter.net.
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