An EF-4 tornado hit Cookeville around 2 a.m., catching many off guard and leaving little time for them to seek shelter. The twister first touched down near Baxter and followed U.S. 70 into the city.

It's path tore through Germantown, but didn't stop there. To the east, in the town of Cookeville, that EF4 tornado took the lives of nearly 20. It killed 19 people. 80 more were hurt and dozens ...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The March 3, 2020 tornado was the worst on record to affect Putnam County. The vicious storm hit in the middle of the night, and some people just didn't have a chance ...

The two most powerful tornadoes caused impacts from Nashville to Cookeville. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Anthony Leonard, a captain in the Cookeville Police Department, has spent more than two decades working in law enforcement.

Another, even stronger, EF4 tornado struck Cookeville, 60 miles east of Nashville, causing 19 fatalities. Prior to those tornadoes, it had been seven years since as many people were killed by one ...

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Tornadoes that strike overnight are nearly twice as likely to be deadly as those during the day due to a combination of factors, including lack of storm spotter reports and missing alerts for tornado ...