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Storm reports for December 10, 2021

NOAA recorded 26 hail reports, 292 wind reports and 68 tornado reports in 12 states on December 10, 2021.

in 12 states
386
Storm reports
Near 33.47, -95.21, TX
2.0 in
Largest hail
About 19 miles from Clarksville, TN
115 mph
Highest gust
Highest rating EF4, about 57 miles from Memphis, TN
68
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; radar hail estimates from NOAA MRMS; gust estimates from NOAA URMA; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports. Shading: radar estimate.

  • Wind report
  • Estimated gusts, 50 to 90 mph
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path
  • Surveyed wind damage

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on December 10, 2021 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot. Gust lines are estimates: the highest gust of the day in NOAA's hourly 2.5 km wind analysis (URMA), which fills in between weather stations. They aren't measurements at any building.

What happened

An EF4 tornado with peak winds estimated at 190 mph touched down in Obion County, Tennessee, at 8:49 p.m. CST on December 10, 2021, and tracked 165.7 miles across western Kentucky to Grayson County.1 It reached Mayfield at 9:26 p.m. and nearly destroyed the downtown district. More than 3,778 homes, 183 commercial properties and 103 other buildings in Mayfield were damaged or destroyed.1 Homes were also destroyed in Cayce, Dawson Springs and Bremen.1 The tornado killed 57 people and injured 508 to 533. NWS Paducah puts damage from that night's tornadoes in western Kentucky at up to $3.5 billion.1

A second tornado, rated EF3, ran 122.7 miles from Dyer County, Tennessee, to near Elkton, Kentucky. In Weakley County, Tennessee, it damaged 187 homes and affected 21 businesses, and it destroyed or damaged numerous homes and businesses in Dresden.1,2 Earlier, at 7:07 p.m., a tornado that began near Bay, Arkansas, removed part or all of the roofs of homes and stores in Monette. It reached EF4 strength in Pemiscot County, Missouri, and Lake County, Tennessee, where 3 people died near Reelfoot Lake.3,4,5 An EF3 tornado that touched down near Edwardsville, Illinois, at 8:27 p.m. killed 6 people.6

At 1:09 a.m. CST on December 11, an EF3 tornado with peak winds of 165 mph struck Bowling Green, Kentucky, killing 17 people and injuring 63.7 Eight homes near Mossy Creek were wiped down to their foundations, and dozens of homes in one subdivision lost walls, roofs or garages.7

Sources

  1. 1. NWS Paducah: December 10 to 11, 2021 Tornado Outbreak
  2. 2. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 997421, tornado, Weakley County, Tennessee
  3. 3. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 997127, tornado, Craighead County, Arkansas
  4. 4. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 997130, tornado, Pemiscot County, Missouri
  5. 5. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 997133, tornado, Lake County, Tennessee
  6. 6. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 996712, tornado, Madison County, Illinois
  7. 7. NWS Louisville: December 11, 2021 Tornadoes

Reports by hour

Hail26, most at 8 PM

Wind292, most at 5 AM

Tornado68, most at 8 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
4:12 PMEF0About 10 miles from Montgomery, AL0.19 mi long, 50 yd wide
6:13 PMEF1About 32 miles from Springfield, MO6.34 mi long, 75 yd wide
6:15 PMNot ratedNear 35.47, -91.23, AR6.68 mi long, 150 yd wide
6:40 PMEF0Near 35.61, -90.93, AR2.97 mi long, 50 yd wide
6:55 PMEF0Near 39.07, -91.59, MO4.27 mi long, 50 yd wide
6:57 PMEF1About 60 miles from Memphis, TN6.14 mi long, 150 yd wide
7:03 PMEF0About 56 miles from Memphis, TN1.31 mi long, 50 yd wide
7:07 PMEF4About 57 miles from Memphis, TN81.17 mi long, 1800 yd wide
7:32 PMEF3About 38 miles from St. Louis, MO27.3 mi long, 150 yd wide
7:37 PMEF1About 34 miles from Springfield, MO0.62 mi long, 75 yd wide
7:47 PMEF2Near 39.90, -90.24, IL12.75 mi long, 200 yd wide
7:49 PMEF1About 30 miles from Springfield, MO1.57 mi long, 100 yd wide
Show all 68 tornado reports
TimeRatingWherePath
8:06 PMEF1Near 35.63, -91.26, AR0.5 mi long, 80 yd wide
8:07 PMEF2About 50 miles from Peoria, IL4.56 mi long, 250 yd wide
8:13 PMEF2Near 35.30, -91.37, AR10.5 mi long, 500 yd wide
8:27 PMEF3About 13 miles from St. Louis, MO4.22 mi long, 300 yd wide
8:30 PMEF1Near 35.41, -91.13, AR0.5 mi long, 30 yd wide
8:30 PMEF1Near 35.82, -90.92, AR4.62 mi long, 75 yd wide
8:32 PMEF1About 49 miles from Clarksville, TN2.7 mi long, 75 yd wide
8:39 PMEF1Near 36.42, -89.27, TN0.68 mi long, 100 yd wide
8:41 PMEF0Near 36.41, -89.22, TN3.09 mi long, 80 yd wide
8:43 PMEF0Near 36.44, -89.21, TN0.39 mi long, 50 yd wide
8:45 PMEF0About 59 miles from Memphis, TN0.5 mi long, 25 yd wide
8:51 PMEF0About 57 miles from Memphis, TN0.08 mi long, 20 yd wide
8:53 PMEF2About 44 miles from St. Louis, MO41.54 mi long, 690 yd wide
8:54 PMEF4Near 36.48, -89.14, TN168.53 mi long, 2600 yd wide
9:11 PMEF2About 50 miles from Memphis, TN3.6 mi long, 250 yd wide
9:50 PMEF2Near 39.42, -88.59, IL15.86 mi long, 200 yd wide
10:05 PMEF2Near 37.27, -90.89, MO6.86 mi long, 300 yd wide
10:05 PMEF0About 32 miles from Chicago, IL4.8 mi long, 100 yd wide
10:18 PMEF1Near 39.60, -88.10, IL6.33 mi long, 100 yd wide
10:32 PMEF3Near 36.12, -89.26, TN122.62 mi long, 2000 yd wide
10:41 PMEF2Near 39.85, -87.67, IL3.65 mi long, 200 yd wide
12:06 AMEF1About 38 miles from Louisville, KY1.9 mi long, 50 yd wide
12:40 AMEF0About 32 miles from Memphis, TN0.53 mi long, 50 yd wide
12:47 AMEF3About 27 miles from Clarksville, TN28.02 mi long, 1400 yd wide
12:51 AMEF1About 20 miles from Louisville, KY1.9 mi long, 100 yd wide
1:09 AMEF3About 47 miles from Clarksville, TN29.26 mi long, 440 yd wide
1:19 AMEF2About 58 miles from Clarksville, TN6.1 mi long, 300 yd wide
1:32 AMEF1Near 35.61, -88.67, TN7.86 mi long, 300 yd wide
1:38 AMEF2Near 37.07, -86.09, KY16.98 mi long, 900 yd wide
1:40 AMEF2Near 35.68, -88.48, TN15.34 mi long, 600 yd wide
1:52 AMEF2Near 37.22, -85.93, KY23.82 mi long, 528 yd wide
2:00 AMEF1Near 35.80, -88.17, TN9.07 mi long, 100 yd wide
2:06 AMEF1Near 40.73, -83.83, OH1.6 mi long, 150 yd wide
2:15 AMEF2Near 35.79, -87.88, TN15.16 mi long, 600 yd wide
2:20 AMEF3About 59 miles from Louisville, KY14.54 mi long, 450 yd wide
2:32 AMEF1About 48 miles from Clarksville, TN8.54 mi long, 400 yd wide
2:40 AMEF2About 41 miles from Nashville, TN10.87 mi long, 500 yd wide
2:41 AMEF1About 50 miles from Lexington, KY1.9 mi long, 50 yd wide
2:49 AMEF0About 31 miles from Nashville, TN5.41 mi long, 175 yd wide
2:57 AMEF2About 23 miles from Nashville, TN12.61 mi long, 400 yd wide
3:01 AMEF2About 36 miles from Lexington, KY0.63 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:02 AMEF1About 33 miles from Lexington, KY3.63 mi long, 400 yd wide
3:04 AMEF1About 34 miles from Lexington, KY7.08 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:07 AMEF1About 28 miles from Lexington, KY2.99 mi long, 950 yd wide
3:10 AMEF1About 27 miles from Lexington, KY0.6 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:12 AMEF0About 10 miles from Nashville, TN9 mi long, 300 yd wide
3:22 AMEF1About 25 miles from Lexington, KY0.25 mi long, 75 yd wide
3:30 AMEF1About 10 miles from Nashville, TN6.82 mi long, 150 yd wide
3:31 AMEF1About 16 miles from Lexington, KY1.2 mi long, 125 yd wide
3:31 AMEF1About 11 miles from Nashville, TN7.67 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:33 AMEF0About 9 miles from Nashville, TN1.38 mi long, 50 yd wide
3:42 AMEF0About 27 miles from Nashville, TN6.21 mi long, 50 yd wide
3:48 AMEF0About 27 miles from Nashville, TN3.07 mi long, 50 yd wide
4:04 AMEF0About 47 miles from Nashville, TN7.35 mi long, 75 yd wide
4:20 AMEF1Near 36.58, -85.77, TN11.18 mi long, 75 yd wide
4:30 AMEF1Near 34.54, -88.46, MS4.5 mi long, 100 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Kentucky7025117
Tennessee6323922
Missouri628486
Alabama460451
Arkansas43112012
Indiana420411
Illinois400337
Ohio8071
Texas5320
Mississippi4031
Louisiana2020
Oklahoma1010

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Memphis, TN0.88 in81 mph0
Clarksville, TNNone61 mph0
Dayton, OHNone58 mph0
Indianapolis, INNone69 mph0
Lexington, KYNone61 mph0
Montgomery, ALNoneNone1
Nashville, TNNone85 mph4
Peoria, ILNone70 mph0
Shreveport, LANone64 mph0
Springfield, MONone70 mph0
St. Louis, MONone70 mph1

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.