DEC 9, 2023 Tornado outbreak

A significant, late-season severe weather and tornado outbreak affected portions of the Southern United States, primarily across the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi. Tennessee took the brunt of the outbreak with multiple damaging tornadoes touching down, including a high-end EF1 tornado that damaged a National Guard Armory site near Dresden, a long-tracked, intense EF3 tornado that caused heavy damage in northwestern portion of Clarksville, and another strong, long-tracked high-end EF2 tornado that prompted a tornado emergency for the city of Hendersonville. The tornadoes killed seven people, and injured 71 others, including 61 alone from the Clarksville tornado. The tornado outbreak scored 15 points on the Outbreak Intensity Score, ranking it as a significant tornado outbreak