Dave:
Yo! Thank you for asking!
East Tennessee had only some minor wind damage from that storm system. Parts of West Tennessee, however, sustained terrible damage -- especially in and around Dyer County, which is bounded on the west by the Mississippi River. The tornado which hit those good people is thought to have been an "F3" storm. The Governor has declared a disaster and requested Federal assistance for the area. May God bless and help the victims!
Tornadoes are truly dangerous and unpredictable forces of nature. I saw a few while growing up in Oklahoma. Most of them were small, touching down only briefly and doing minimal damage. But one of them in the early '50s practically leveled a small town a few miles west of our home. I still have two vivid memories from that storm . . . first, the sound of the thing in the distance, and later, the sight of a pickup truck sitting upright on the rubble of what had been a two-story building in the middle of town.
