Two people are dead in Morgan County, Tennessee, after a tornado swept through the area on Thursday, Feb. The storm moved through the Deer Lodge and Sunbright areas around p. Morgan County Emergency Management Agency confirmed the two fatalities and three additional injured people in a Facebook post on Friday morning.
At around p. The storm resulted in severe property damage, injuries and loss of life, according to Morgan County Emergency Management Agency. When is tornado season in Tennessee? Morgan County may have seen first of The Tennessee Highway Patrol deployed a team of 30 state troopers to the scene on Thursday evening.
State troopers continue to be on the scene on Friday morning to escort the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency and National Weather Service personnel to assess the storm's damage, according to Captain Stacey Heatherly. On the evening of Thursday, Feb 6, there was another tornado in Grainger County. The storm damaged multiple buildings in Thorne Hill, Tenn. The majority of the damage was concentrated near the intersection of U.
In addition to the damaged buildings, there were fallen trees and customers without power on Friday morning, Feb. The Thorn Hill tornado was also only the fourth confirmed tornado in Grainger County for any part of the year, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado in Morgan County saw maximum sustained winds of miles per hour while the second storm in Grainger County saw maximum sustained winds of miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.
Sunbright, Tennessee is located in Morgan County. The small city has a population of less than people and is located about 60 miles Northwest of Knoxville. Sunbright and Deer Lodge, the other affected area, are neighboring communities. They are only about seven miles apart. Less than one year ago, the Sunbright community was hit by a tornado that caused extensive damage.
