jumpertown tornado

[Terry Tyler]

a couple people at work told me there was a tornado that come into jumpertown a couple weekends back when we had all those storms, i believe it was 3/15/08...when they told me i didnt believe em, cause i knew there werent any warnings, and there wasnt anything on the storm reports about it...

well, i heard about it today again at my freinds house and they said it was real bad and i said, naw its not in the storm reports...

when i got back to the house, i figured id look into it and see what was up...and it looks like there was a tornado, and it apparently went right through jumpertown, which is near booneville...not to far up the road from me at all...

http://www.dailycorinthian.com/touchdown0316.htm

im sure there are other links out there about it, but i didnt look too hard...i just thought its interesting to see an un-warned and un-documented tornado that came right into a pretty large city...i guess it could have been a damaging wind gust, but who knows for sure...there isnt anything about it in the SPC reports section...

the article says that the memphis survey team is going to look at it, but i havent seen anything on that either...

 

[Sam Sagnella]

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/080314_rpts.html

Remember that the SPC reports switch to a new day at 12z, so for an early morning event such as this, one must go back a day. I, too, cannot find anything about a confirmed tornado from this event, but since it has now been more than a week, it has likely already been surveyed and deemed straight-line wind -- just my assumption. EDIT: Scratch that. After re-reading the article above, it appears that the damage survey is scheduled for this morning; if that's the case, we should know more by this evening.

Also, it's always important to remember the classic line: "severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce tornadoes with little or no advance warning." Just because there was no TOR in effect, does NOT mean that a tornado could not have occurred (although, again, in this situation it appears that this was not the case). Hope this was of some use .

EDIT2: sheesh, I am all over the place this morning; I don't know what the deal is... ANYWAY, the survey of the Jumpertown damage was done last week, and it was determined to have been caused by straight-line winds estimated to be near 100mph.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/meg/events/20080315/lsr.php