Tennessee
Tornado damages trees, house in Tennessee
A tornado briefly touched down in Smithville, Tennessee.
“This is where the tornado went through Smithville,” @Crockchad said on the video. “It got everything through here. This house has extensive damage.
SMITHVILLE, Tenn. – A confirmed tornado plowed through Smithville, Tennessee, on Monday afternoon, tearing up trees and damaging homes.
While all eyes were on the Plains and the very rare “high risk” area over Oklahoma City, another twister snuck into the Tennessee Valley. NOAA only had the area in a Level 1 threat out of 5.
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This graphic shows the severe weather threat on Monday, May 6, 2024.
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An off-duty emergency manager confirmed the tornado visually for the National Weather Service. Survey teams will investigate to determine the strength.
Listen to the video to hear the reported one-inch hail pelting the car.
“Footage of where the tornado just went through Smithville. As you can see, it definitely tore through this area,” the photographer said on the video. “Oh, yeah, it got this house, got everything through here. This house has extensive damage.”
Through the raindrops on the windows, you can see a home missing part of its roof. The driver has to weave around the downed trees on the road.
Just 30 miles west, Bell Buckle, Tennessee, saw lime-sized hail, while Gatlinburg, 60 miles east, saw pingpong ball-sized hail.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – We’re experiencing our hottest weather since summer 2025.
The hottest weather of the year is having a major impact on Middle Tennesseans. Temperatures have soared well above average during the afternoon and remained unusually high at night for several days. That’s caused thousands across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky to temporarily change the way they go about everyday life. The heat has been so significant that temperatures have actually been in record territory.
For example, this past Sunday, Nashville nearly tied the highest minimum temperature ever for the date — 80° set in 1936. Nashville’s low on Sunday was 79.
As for high temperatures, while it was easily the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, Nashville missed that day’s record by nine degrees.
We’ll be closer on Wednesday, missing it by just six degrees.
There’s an even closer approach in line for Thursday. Our forecast for Nashville is 98°. The record high temperature is 101.
Cooler weather will eventually take over. By early next week, we expect highs to return to more seasonable levels — the low 90s.
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Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Stallings was called up by the Milwaukee Brewers on June 30.
Stallings, 28, likely will make his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds on June 30 in the second game of the Brewers’ four-game homestand.
Stallings played at Tennessee from 2017 to 2019 in the early years of Tony Vitello’s stint at the Vols’ head coach. He earned a starting role as a freshman and became the ace by his junior season.
In 2019, the Los Angeles Angels selected Stallings in the fifth round of the MLB draft. He bounced around in the minors before landing firmly in Triple-A with the Norfolk Tides, and later the Brewers’ affiliate Nashville Sounds, in 2024.
Stallings posted a 3-3 record with the Sounds in 2026 with a 3.45 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 62⅔ innings.
He will be the 54th player in Tennessee history to reach the major leagues and the 12th since 2020. He will join left-hander Garrett Crochet (2020); right-hander Ben Joyce (2023); infielder Andre Lipcius (2023); IF Trey Lipscomb (2024); outfielder Jordan Beck (2024); RHP Seth Halvorsen (2024); RHP Chase Dollander (2025); RHP Blade Tidwell (2025); INF Christian Moore (2025); OF Drew Gilbert (2025); and RHP Chad Dallas (2026).
Dallas made his debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 4.
Wynton Jackson covers high school sports for Knox News. Email: wynton.jackson@knoxnews.com
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